Tessa Bailey finishes up the Bellinger Sisters duo of books that started with IT HAPPENED ONE SUMMER with HOOK, LINE, AND SINKER. Where Piper and Brendan from the first book were flashy and gruff respectively, Hannah and Fox are also opposites attract. Hannah is quiet and goes out of her way to support others whereas Fox is a sexy, manwhore who only appears out for a good time.Β
After keeping in touch with each other upon leaving Westport, production assistant Hannah returns with a movie crew in tow to film in the town.Β In the standard friends-to-lovers storyline, they don't want to ruin their friendship by risking it on love, and by the end of the book, the reasons for the characters' issues are explored and fixed. HOOK, LINE, AND SINKER is a cute rom-com and it was great to see the characters from the first book.Β
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.
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, 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?
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