Tessa Bailey is back with a Schitt’s Creek-inspired rom-com about a Hollywood “It Girl” who’s cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town... where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she doesn’t belong.
Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. So he cuts her off, and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father’s dive bar... in Washington.
Piper hasn’t even been in Westport for five minutes when she meets big, bearded sea captain Brendan, who thinks she won’t last a week outside of Beverly Hills. So what if Piper can’t do math, and the idea of sleeping in a shabby apartment with bunk beds gives her hives. How bad could it really be? She’s determined to show her stepfather—and the hot, grumpy local—that she’s more than a pretty face.
Except it’s a small town and everywhere she turns, she bumps into Brendan. The fun-loving socialite and the gruff fisherman are polar opposites, but there’s an undeniable attraction simmering between them. Piper doesn’t want any distractions, especially feelings for a man who sails off into the sunset for weeks at a time. Yet as she reconnects with her past and begins to feel at home in Westport, Piper starts to wonder if the cold, glamorous life she knew is what she truly wants. LA is calling her name, but Brendan—and this town full of memories—may have already caught her heart.
ISBN: | 9780063045675 |
Publication date: | 13th July 2021 |
Author: | Tessa Bailey |
Publisher: | HarperAudio |
Format: | Audiobook |
Primary Genre | Romance / Relationship Stories |
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Are we just not going to talk about how fantastic It Happened One Summer is? Oh no, we are! A huge fan of Tessa Bailey, I have been itching to get my hands on this book. If you exist anywhere in the Bookstagram or BookTok universe - you have heard of this series (I plan on reading book two in the near future!) Let me tell you, the reviews DON'T even do it justice. Think of every romantic comedy where the "It" girl/Popular Girl is totally out of her element, has to be knocked down a few pegs to survive, and the hilarity that transformation creates (think Clueless, Mean Girls, Pitch Perfect, etc). In a nutshell, this book was all of the good stuff wrapped in one.
Piper is the queen of the scene. The true definition of the “it” girl.... Read Full Review