It Happened One Summer (Bellinger Sisters #1)
Tessa Bailey
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· 883 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 60
- small town 57
- grumpy & sunshine 52
- famous heroine 46
- working class hero 43
- rich heroine 43
- funny 42
- grumpy/cold hero 39
- possessive hero 36
- cheerful/happy heroine 34
- alpha male 32
- enemies to lovers 31
- class difference 31
- m-f romance 27
- sweet/gentle heroine 23
- new adult 22
- height difference 19
- sassy heroine 17
- take-charge heroine 11
- friends to lovers 10
- tortured hero 8
- rich hero 8
- slow burn 7
- caretaking 5
- independent heroine 1
- found family 1
- insta-love 1
- sweet/gentle hero 1
- childfree 1
- angst 1
- multicultural 1
- forced proximity 1
- good grovel 1
- praise kink 1
- competent heroine 1
- tortured heroine 1
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- content warnings
- death / grief 30
- misogyny 1
- geography
- washington state 16
- usa 14
- north america 12
- california 10
- Format
- audiobook
- dual pov 27
- third person pov 25
- male pov 2
- standalone 1
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The 'Bellinger Sisters' series
3.97 · 1474 ratings
new adult · height-difference · competent heroine · m-f · contemporary · audiobook · male-pov · humor · forced proximity · usa · standalone-first · death · tortured hero · small town · class difference · rich heroine · north-america · angst · sweet heroine · friends to lovers
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