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Once upon a summer night, I found a grump hiding in my tree house. The summer and second chance neither of them saw coming. I couldn’t put the book down from page one to the very end.A grumpy bookstore owner. These complex characters were a pleasure to enjoy with the story twists and secrets that come out in the end. He sucked me into his crazy grouchiness and I wanted to forcefully hug on him like a feral cat. He wormed his way into my heart while I was grumbling about his many problems. And seemed to have unlimited patience in dealing with Smith. Alice is a strong, privileged heroine who refuses to let any person dictate how she lives her life.

For a summer, “wild” Alice is sentenced to co-exist with Smith by her unknowing mother. Alice was betrayed by her best friend and peer group but also by Smith.

He’s secretive, blunt, anti-social, untrusting and kind of an asshole. Both of our main characters are broken but in very different ways.

This second chance romance is an angsty roller coaster of emotion but it’s almost low key how it slowly unravels. Smith and Alice sneaked into my heart and stole my New Year. It contains some sensitive subject matter. Told in dual POV, The Grump Who Stole Summer is a full-length standalone, enemies to lovers second chance romance. Something told me I’d regret not finding out. Would she still melt beneath the pads of my inexperienced fingers?ĭid she still want me as much as I wanted her?Īnd finally, could she ever forgive an undeserving prick like me? Would she still smile and laugh when I said something acidic? If maybe, she could truly accept a guy like me.Īll of me. I began to wonder if I’d been wrong to push her away three years ago, and if she was as I’d hoped and feared-different. But when the one person who’d tried made headlines, got dumped by her Ivy League college, and was forced to work in my bookstore, I began to wonder if I needed it when my heart beat faster at just the sight of her. My soul died when I was fourteen, and there was no reviving it. USA Today bestselling author, Ella Fields, returns to contemporary romance with an all-new angsty enemies to lovers standalone.