Burnout Summer
A Novel
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
For fans of Tessa Bailey, Emily Henry, and Elle Kennedy: a beachy friends-to-lovers romance through a post-grad journey that will have readers cheering (and falling in love!) along.
Four years after graduation, life isn’t going the way Camille Luna expected. Her corporate career is soul-sucking, she's in debt from student loans, and her breakup with her ex has created a serious rift between her college best friends. When her spiraling lands her in jail for the night, it's Danny Brennan —the lovable burnout from their college clique— who bails her out and offers the perfect solution to her quarter-life crisis: a summer by the beach.
Cam is whisked away to Elswick, Rhode Island, where former slacker Danny has taken over his uncle’s restaurant and turned it into a seaside hotspot. But while Danny has grown into a devoted boss and dog dad, his carpe diem life philosophy is still as fiery as ever. The hazy summer days start to blur between shifts at the restaurant, dips in the ocean, and a reignited passion for writing, all alongside Danny who makes her laugh like nobody else. Cam can't help but wonder —is it the salty waves that have her feeling so renewed, or is it the carefree friend she always overlooked? But summer can't last forever, and Cam's looming student debt reminds her at every turn that the frigid air of corporate office life is waiting.
As September approaches, Cam must decide between snuffing out the flames with Danny in order to keep her beloved friend group together and returning to the corporate grind—or falling into his forbidden arms and setting her old life ablaze.
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Ramirez's satisfying debut matches up a pair of opposites to delightful effect. It opens on Camille "Cam" Luna having a really bad day: first, she loses her job as a social media content writer, then she gets arrested for disturbing the peace after lighting a cigarette in a smoke free-zone, accidentally starting a fire, and berating a police officer. Fortunately, her college friend Danny Brennan is there to bail her out. Among their five-person college friend group, Danny was always the laid-back one. While the other four—Cam, Morgan, Cory, and Drew—were obsessed with climbing the corporate ladder as soon as possible, Danny's path was never clear and he didn't stress about it. Now, he runs Beau's, a beachside bar in Rhode Island that he inherited from his uncle, and he convinces Cam to come spend the summer with him to regroup. Cam settles into an idyllic, beachy summer, during which she waits tables at Beau's, rekindles her love for creative writing, and fights an unexpected attraction to Danny. But when an opportunity arises to prove herself in the corporate rat race, Cam must confront her priorities. Ramirez does a sensitive job illustrating Cam's struggle to define her future, and creates such an appealing hero in supportive Danny that readers will swoon. It's impossible not to root for these charming leads on their well-paced journey from friends to lovers.
