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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... where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local sea captain who thinks she doesn?t belong. 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 in this charming fish out of water story. 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 in this opposites attract romance, 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. As seen on E!Online, PopSugar, CNN, EliteDaily, Vulture, Buzzfeed, Bustle, the Nerd Daily, PARADE, LA Magazine, Country Living, USA Today, and more! One spare room in a backwater town. Two people who are polar opposites. And a connection neither of them saw coming. Grumpy Sunshine: He?s a big, bearded sea captain who thinks she won?t last a week outside of Beverly Hills. She?s a fashionable wild child determined to prove everyone?especially him?wrong. Forced Proximity: Piper can?t escape the grumpy local in a town as small as Westport. He?s everywhere she turns, and the undeniable attraction simmering between them is getting harder to ignore. Fish Out of Water: From rooftop parties to a shabby apartment with bunk beds, Piper is determined to prove she's more than just a pretty face by running her late father's dive bar. Found Family: As Piper reconnects with her past and begins to feel at home in the quirky Pacific Northwest town, she starts to wonder if the glamorous life she left behind is what she truly wants after all.

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND #1 USA TODAY BESTSELLER In the follow-up to It Happened One Summer, Tessa Bailey delivers another deliciously fun and spicy small town rom-com about a former player who accidentally falls for his best friend while trying to help her land a different man? King crab fisherman Fox Thornton has a reputation as a sexy, carefree flirt. Everyone knows he?s a guaranteed good time?in bed and out?and that?s exactly how he prefers it. Until he meets Hannah Bellinger. She?s immune to his charm and looks, but she seems to enjoy his? personality? And wants to be friends? Bizarre. But he likes her too much to risk a fling, so platonic pals it is in this charming friends to lovers romance. Now, Hannah's in town for work, crashing in Fox?s spare bedroom. She knows he?s a notorious ladies? man, but they?re definitely just friends. In fact, she's nursing a hopeless crush on a colleague and Fox is just the person to help with her lackluster love life. Armed with a few tips from Westport?s resident Casanova, Hannah sets out to catch her coworker?s eye? yet the more time she spends with Fox, the more she wants him instead. As the line between friendship and flirtation begins to blur in a classic slow burn, Hannah can't deny she loves everything about Fox, but she refuses to be another notch on his bedpost. Living with his best friend should have been easy. Except now she?s walking around in a towel, sleeping right across the hall, and Fox is fantasizing about waking up next to her for the rest of his life and? and? man overboard! He?s fallen for her, hook, line, and sinker. Helping her flirt with another guy is pure torture, but maybe if Fox can tackle his inner demons and show Hannah he?s all in, she'll choose him instead?

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Tessa Bailey?#1 New York Times bestselling author, TikTok favorite, and "the Michelangelo of dirty talk" (Entertainment Weekly)?comes a spicy small town rom-com about a grumpy professor and the bubbly neighbor he clashes with at every turn... Hallie Welch fell hard for Julian Vos at fourteen, after they almost kissed in the dark vineyards of his family?s winery. Now the prodigal hottie has returned to Napa Valley, and when Hallie is hired to revamp the gardens on the Vos estate, she wonders if she'll finally get that smooch. But the starchy professor isn?t the teenager she remembers and their polar opposite personalities clash spectacularly. One wine-fueled girls? night later, Hallie can?t shake the sense that she did something reckless?and then she remembers the drunken secret admirer letter she left for Julian. Oh shit. On sabbatical from his ivy league job, Julian plans to write a novel. But having Hallie gardening right outside his window is the ultimate distraction. She?s eccentric, chronically late, often literally covered in dirt?and so unbelievably beautiful, he can?t focus on anything else. Until he finds an anonymous letter sent by a woman from his past. Even as Julian wonders about this admirer, he?s sucked further into Hallie?s orbit. Like the flowers she plants all over town, Hallie is a burst of color in Julian?s grayscale life. For a man who irons his socks and runs on tight schedules, her sunny chaotic energy makes zero sense. But there?s something so familiar about her... and her very presence is turning his world upside down. "Tessa Bailey is the queen of rom-coms. Long may she reign!" ? Julie Murphy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Merry Little Meet Cute