Hook, Line, and Sinker: A Novel (Bellinger Sisters, 2)
AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND #1 USA TODAY BESTSELLER
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...
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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Community Reviews
I needed more of Westport and stories of Piper/Brendan and I especially needed to see how the rest of Hannah and Foxâs stories unfolded.
The way Tessa Bailey started this novel out in strings of texts between Hannah and Fox to show the evolution of their friendship really stood out to me. It was a nice way to catch the readers up on how they got to the place they were in rather than drop us into the story and say, âHey! These two became friends between the end of It Happened One Summer and now.â It did away with the sense of mystery and many questions that tend to start out in companion novels.
I loved watching both Hannah and Fox grow throughout the course of the story and to learn more about them. Such a beautiful telling of friends to lovers.
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