Rules of the Beach
(2027)(The fourth book in the Staying on the Brightside series)
A novel by Carina Walsh
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Ariel Sloane has spent years making the Brightside B&B look like the happiest place on the coast for fifty thousand strangers, and exactly zero seconds letting any of them see the unedited version. She has one rule she's never had to test: the best friend's brother is a locked door. Then Kit Rivera comes home. He's broke, carless, still infuriatingly gorgeous, and about nine years too late. Worse, a second bed gets shoved into HER room. Granted, it used to be his room. Kit came back to Brightside to be quiet, do the work, and face the people he walked away from when he chased a marriage across the country and let it swallow him whole. He has every intention of getting back on his feet and going. What he didn't plan on was his little sister's best friend. Pink hair, ring light, and a grudge she's been sharpening since she was a teenager. But she starts to feel like the first thing in years that makes staying feel like living instead of surviving. As one shared room and one very bad decision push them closer than either of them will admit to, Ariel will have to decide whether she's brave enough to put the phone down... and let someone love the version she'd never post.
Perfect for readers who love: Best friend's brother • Loud sunshine heroine • Grumpy fix-it hero • Forced room-share • Enemies to lovers • She fell first, He FINALLY falls harder • Opposites attract • Healing after a bad marriage • Small-town beach romcom • Found family • Slow-burn, high-heat chemistry • Interconnected standalones
Genre: Romance
Ariel Sloane has spent years making the Brightside B&B look like the happiest place on the coast for fifty thousand strangers, and exactly zero seconds letting any of them see the unedited version. She has one rule she's never had to test: the best friend's brother is a locked door. Then Kit Rivera comes home. He's broke, carless, still infuriatingly gorgeous, and about nine years too late. Worse, a second bed gets shoved into HER room. Granted, it used to be his room. Kit came back to Brightside to be quiet, do the work, and face the people he walked away from when he chased a marriage across the country and let it swallow him whole. He has every intention of getting back on his feet and going. What he didn't plan on was his little sister's best friend. Pink hair, ring light, and a grudge she's been sharpening since she was a teenager. But she starts to feel like the first thing in years that makes staying feel like living instead of surviving. As one shared room and one very bad decision push them closer than either of them will admit to, Ariel will have to decide whether she's brave enough to put the phone down... and let someone love the version she'd never post.
Perfect for readers who love: Best friend's brother • Loud sunshine heroine • Grumpy fix-it hero • Forced room-share • Enemies to lovers • She fell first, He FINALLY falls harder • Opposites attract • Healing after a bad marriage • Small-town beach romcom • Found family • Slow-burn, high-heat chemistry • Interconnected standalones
Genre: Romance