Rules For The Summer
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Last published Thu, Jul 3, 2025
Alana Del Rey Hart only has one goal after graduation and that is spending the summer running the cafe her late mother left her responsible for. Unfortunately, the Donovan's- one of the richest families in town- have other plans for the cafe, with the exception of Jensen Donovan, whose plans only involve her. Unable to deny her attraction to him she agrees to a summer fling, putting in place a series of rules he can't wait to break...
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Eight years ago; the mysterious death of two women in a small town in Southern California left two families broken... Their children: Alana Hart and Jensen Donovan meet in the heat of summer, drawing up a series of rules they must follow to keep from expanding the holes their mother's deaths left in their hearts... so would finding out what really happened to their mothers be enough for them to ditch the rules?
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