It Happened One Summer (Bellinger Sisters #1)
Tessa Bailey
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
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Explicit open door [?]
· 496 ratings · 416 pages · Published: 13 Jul 2021
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.
Tagged as:
- contemporary 46
- small town 42
- grumpy & sunshine 39
- funny 34
- working class hero 34
- famous heroine 32
- rich heroine 31
- grumpy/cold hero 29
- cheerful/happy heroine 26
- possessive hero 25
- enemies to lovers 24
- alpha male 22
- class difference 19
- dual pov 19
- new adult 17
- sweet/gentle heroine 17
- third person pov 16
- m-f romance 13
- sassy heroine 12
- height difference 12
- friends to lovers 9
- take-charge heroine 5
- slow burn 3
- rich hero 3
- tortured hero 2
- insta-love 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- death / grief 21
- geography
- washington state 5
- usa 5
- north america 5
- california 3
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The 'Bellinger Sisters' series
840 ratings 4.02 ·
north-america · strong heroine · height-difference · contemporary · tortured hero · sweet heroine · slow burn · third-person-pov · friends to lovers · class difference · small town · possessive hero · m-f · working class hero · washington · dual-pov · california · usa · humor · cheerful heroine
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