Piper is a 28 year-old and living her life off her stepdad’s Hollywood money. After reading the synopsis, I knew this story sounded so good as I love opposites attract romances, but I was so surprised how much I fell for these characters. OMG, for my first Tessa Bailey book, I have to say that I hit the jackpot. This was the perfect book to read this summer! I loved it and only want more of Piper and Brendan!Ĭongrats to Tessa Bailey for this book’s nomination as one of the best romance books of the year according to the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards. Piper is determined to prove everyone wrong and can’t risk any distractions, including the feelings she’s beginning to have for the sailor.

Hoping to teach her a lesson, he sends her off to Washington to run her late father’s dive bar where she meets a big surly sea captain who instantly knows she doesn’t belong in their small town.īrendan figures Piper won’t last a week outside of Beverly Hills even if there is an undeniable attraction between the two opposites. LA is calling her name, but Brendan-and this town full of memories-may have already caught her heart.Piper Bellinger may be a fashionable influencer, but when her wild child reputation goes a bit too far and lands her in the slammer, her stepfather cuts her off. 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. Piper doesn't want any distractions, especially feelings for a man who sails off into the sunset for weeks at a time. The fun-loving socialite and the gruff fisherman are polar opposites, but there's an undeniable attraction simmering between them. 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.Įxcept it's a small town and everywhere she turns, she bumps into Brendan. So what if Piper can't do math, and the idea of sleeping in a shabby apartment with bunk beds gives her hives. 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 he cuts her off, and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father's dive bar. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels.

where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she doesn't belong. The first in a spicy and unforgettable rom-com duology from #1 New York Times bestseller and tik tok favorite Tessa Bailey, in which a Hollywood 'It Girl' is cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town.

It happened one summer tessa