Things Went South This Summer

A network bestseller! Over 224,000,000 views on TikTok! Piper Belllinger enjoys life as a socialite. She changes boyfriends like gloves, and parties and social media are what she can’t imagine her life without. But on one of those evenings, Piper goes too far. Her stepfather loses his temper and, as punishment, sends Piper away with no money in her pocket—together with her younger sister—to a small fishing town.

The heroine meets a gloomy local fisherman named Brendan. It seems like there’s nothing in common between them, yet they are drawn to each other like magnets. Piper now faces a difficult choice: return to the familiar life of luxury or allow herself to fall in love for real.

“An indulged party girl from Los Angeles arrives in a small fishing town—an amusing beginning to a big adventure seasoned with humor, warmth, passion, and atmospheric ocean views. The goal of any romantic book is ultimately to make us fall in love with the gorgeous bookish guy and live through a dizzying romance with him (through the heroine’s feelings and emotions, of course), and this story succeeds: throughout the plot I was sitting there with the smile of an enamored fool, and giant hearts in my eyes—then I closed the book feeling like I was floating above the ground!” Lena Sokol, writer

“If you love romance but you’re tired of abusive relationships and fake drama, this grown-up story is just what you need—like a breath of fresh air! So much tenderness. Internal struggle. Animal passion. I’m absolutely thrilled.” @oh_pollybooks

“I stayed completely delighted—both with the characters and with the plot as a whole! The book is bright, romantic, and full of positive energy. You can’t hold back your emotions—whether laughter or sadness—and that’s wonderful!” @for_books_ever

“Thanks to her exceptional talent, Bailey manages to combine romance and chemistry between the main characters. It’s both sweet and explosively, dangerously sexy.” Kate Clayborn, author of the bestseller “Love at First Sight.”