Two rivals. One fake relationship. A summer neither of them saw coming
Lena Hartwell is home for the summer, and so is the one person she spent all of high school trying to outrank.
Her mother's precious Seasonal Status Board just knocked the Hartwells down three spots, her ex is engaged to someone from the Board's top tier, and Lena is not about to spend the summer explaining her love life to a woman who irons the sofa cushions. So when she needs a date for the gala — fast — she turns to her old high school rival, the one person in their hometown who's always been infuriatingly good at getting under her skin.
Davos Kallis has his own reasons to say yes. A promotion riding on the right image, and a fake girlfriend who happens to know exactly how to work a room — it's convenient, if nothing else. It's supposed to be simple: play the part at the galas, survive the yacht trips, get what they both need, walk away unscathed.
But pretending gets complicated when you're stuck on the same boat, at the same parties, playing the same golden couple for an audience that won't stop watching. What happens when the act stops feeling like acting? What happens if they get caught? And what happens when the summer — and the reason they started faking it in the first place — runs out?
Between a mother with a filing system for grudges, a best friend hell-bent on chaos, and a town that gossips faster than the tide comes in, Lena and Davos have exactly one summer to figure out if the boy she used to compete with is the man she's been trying not to fall for.
For readers who want sexy, sunny, laugh-out-loud fun with serious Hamptons energy — welcome to Eastwater.
The Eastwater Summer Series: interconnected standalones, swoony summer tropes, and a small town that will absolutely ruin your life for entertainment. Each book, a new couple. Every one guaranteed sunshine, banter, and heat. You can read in any order, but it is chronological mostly, so reading in publication order is best.
For more information, including triggers, you can find my website by searching for Tierney Storer Author.
Genre: Romance
Lena Hartwell is home for the summer, and so is the one person she spent all of high school trying to outrank.
Her mother's precious Seasonal Status Board just knocked the Hartwells down three spots, her ex is engaged to someone from the Board's top tier, and Lena is not about to spend the summer explaining her love life to a woman who irons the sofa cushions. So when she needs a date for the gala — fast — she turns to her old high school rival, the one person in their hometown who's always been infuriatingly good at getting under her skin.
Davos Kallis has his own reasons to say yes. A promotion riding on the right image, and a fake girlfriend who happens to know exactly how to work a room — it's convenient, if nothing else. It's supposed to be simple: play the part at the galas, survive the yacht trips, get what they both need, walk away unscathed.
But pretending gets complicated when you're stuck on the same boat, at the same parties, playing the same golden couple for an audience that won't stop watching. What happens when the act stops feeling like acting? What happens if they get caught? And what happens when the summer — and the reason they started faking it in the first place — runs out?
Between a mother with a filing system for grudges, a best friend hell-bent on chaos, and a town that gossips faster than the tide comes in, Lena and Davos have exactly one summer to figure out if the boy she used to compete with is the man she's been trying not to fall for.
For readers who want sexy, sunny, laugh-out-loud fun with serious Hamptons energy — welcome to Eastwater.
The Eastwater Summer Series: interconnected standalones, swoony summer tropes, and a small town that will absolutely ruin your life for entertainment. Each book, a new couple. Every one guaranteed sunshine, banter, and heat. You can read in any order, but it is chronological mostly, so reading in publication order is best.
For more information, including triggers, you can find my website by searching for Tierney Storer Author.
Genre: Romance