It Happened One Summer
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,
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After one too many tabloid stunts, a glittering Los Angeles party girl is shipped to a tiny Washington fishing town to manage her dead father's bar. The local boat captain is grumpy. He grows on her.
Yes. It Happened One Summer contains explicit on-page romance scenes, around 4 out of 5 on the spice scale. Tessa Bailey is known as one of the steamier contemporary romance authors.
Yes. It Happened One Summer contains explicit on-page romance scenes, around 4 out of 5 on the spice scale. Tessa Bailey is known as one of the steamier contemporary romance authors.
Yes. Tessa Bailey wrote a sequel, Hook, Line, and Sinker, that follows the protagonist's sister. The two books share the same Pacific Northwest fishing-town setting.
It Happened One Summer was written by Tessa Bailey, published in 2021 by Avon Books.
It Happened One Summer is 368 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, It Happened One Summer takes most readers 6 to 8 hours to finish.
It Happened One Summer is a standalone novel by Tessa Bailey, not part of a series.
It Happened One Summer is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.