When a sunshine-soaked pier manager and her infuriatingly handsome city inspector declare war over a clipboard and a code violation, the only thing more dangerous than the deadline is everything they’re both pretending not to feel.
Poppy Hartwell has rebuilt her whole life around Brightwater Pier. She manages the vendors, scoops the ice cream, and keeps the whole sun-soaked community running on charm, soft-serve, and the world’s most impressive talent for accidentally saying something filthy in polite company. This summer, she has sixty days to bring the pier up to code before the annual carnival—or lose everything.
She didn’t plan on the inspector being that handsome. Or that infuriating.
Declan Rourke doesn’t do small towns, community spirit, or women who describe structural repairs in ways that make him forget what he was writing on his clipboard. He’s here for thirty days. He has a binder. He has a plan. What he doesn’t have is any reasonable explanation for why he’s starting to dread the moment he’ll have to leave.
The pier community has a running tally of every inappropriate thing Poppy has said to the man with the clipboard. It’s up to forty-seven entries. Declan has memorised all of them. He was only supposed to stay the summer.
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Book Details
Genre: Contemporary Romance / Romantic Comedy
Heat Level: High-Heat, Open-Door (explicit intimate scenes)
POV: Dual First Person (Poppy & Declan)
Ending: HEA (Happily Ever After)
Series: Brightwater Pier — Book 1 (standalone readable; each book features a different pier community member)
That’s What She Said!
A guaranteed HEA. Forty-seven entries on the tally. And one city inspector who never stood a chance.
Perfect for readers who love grumpy-sunshine banter, found-family beach town communities, and love stories where the wit is the foreplay and the honesty is what breaks them open.
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