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It Happened One Summer
$15.99
Author: Tessa Bailey
Genre: Contemporary Romance – Small-Town, Grumpy/Sunshine, Schitt’s Creek–inspired Beach-Town Rom-com
Book Rating:⭐ 8/10
Spicy Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️4/5
Reviews and spice guides call it a spicy rom-com with several explicit scenes; some rate it 3/5, but with how open-door/dirty the scenes are, 4/5 fits your scale.
Description:
Piper Bellinger is an LA “It girl” and wild-child influencer whose out-of-control rooftop party lands her in jail. Fed up, her stepfather cuts her off and ships her (and her sister) to Westport, a tiny fishing town in Washington, to run the dive bar their late father once owned. Piper shows up in designer clothes and zero life skills and immediately clashes with Brendan Taggart, a huge, grumpy sea captain who is sure she won’t last a week. Forced to stay and prove everyone wrong, Piper starts fixing up the bar, reconnecting with her roots, and bumping into Brendan at every turn until their opposites-attract banter turns into a very steamy romance that makes her question whether her old glamorous life is what she really wants.
Trope/Mood:
Grumpy × sunshine; small-town coastal romance; opposites attract; rich party girl × blue-collar fisherman; fish-out-of-water; forced proximity / “stuck in town” set-up; emotional growth + found family; funny, cozy, and pretty spicy.
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