When the film Hannah’s working on ends up shooting in Westport, she crashes in Fox’s spare bedroom. Hook, Line, and Sinker takes place a couple months after the ending of It Happened One Summer, although you don’t necessarily have to read the first book to understand the events of the second. So you can only imagine my excitement when I realized Piper and Fox would be getting their own story! As much as I loved Piper and Brendan, I couldn’t help but be invested in Hannah, Piper’s sister, and Fox, Brendan’s best friend. I picked up It Happened One Summer on a bit of a whim last month - everyone I know was reading it, I missed Schitt’s Creek, and of course, Alexis Rose), and was thoroughly charmed by the small town of Westport, Washington (which is apparently a 3 hour drive for me), and its cast of characters. 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?

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. Living with his best friend should have been easy.

As the line between friendship and flirtation begins to blur, Hannah can’t deny she loves everything about Fox, but she refuses to be another notch on his bedpost. 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. In fact, she’s nursing a hopeless crush on a colleague and Fox is just the person to help with her lackluster love life. She knows he’s a notorious ladies’ man, but they’re definitely just friends. Now, Hannah’s in town for work, crashing in Fox’s spare bedroom. But he likes her too much to risk a fling, so platonic pals it is. She’s immune to his charm and looks, but she seems to enjoy his… personality? And wants to be friends? Bizarre. Everyone knows he’s a guaranteed good time–in bed and out–and that’s exactly how he prefers it. King crab fisherman Fox Thornton has a reputation as a sexy, carefree flirt. In the follow-up to It Happened One Summer, Tessa Bailey delivers another deliciously fun rom-com about a former player who accidentally falls for his best friend while trying to help her land a different man…

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