It Happened One Summer (Bellinger Sisters #1)
Tessa Bailey
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· 820 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.
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Tagged as:
- contemporary 58
- small town 55
- grumpy & sunshine 50
- famous heroine 44
- working class hero 43
- funny 41
- rich heroine 41
- grumpy/cold hero 37
- possessive hero 34
- cheerful/happy heroine 32
- alpha male 31
- enemies to lovers 29
- class difference 29
- m-f romance 25
- new adult 23
- sweet/gentle heroine 22
- height difference 18
- sassy heroine 16
- friends to lovers 10
- take-charge heroine 10
- rich hero 7
- slow burn 6
- tortured hero 6
- caretaking 4
- insta-love 1
- childfree 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- death / grief 28
- geography
- washington state 14
- usa 12
- north america 11
- california 8
- Format
- Audiobook
- dual pov 25
- third person pov 23
- male pov 1
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The 'Bellinger Sisters' series
3.98 · 1368 ratings
working class hero · sweet heroine · friends to lovers · tortured hero · class difference · small town · new adult · rich heroine · height-difference · north-america · m-f · washington · contemporary · california · dual-pov · audiobook · third-person-pov · slow burn · strong heroine · humor
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