Summer Blowout

"As intoxicating as a seat at the top of the Ferris wheel. Reading Claire Cook might be the most fun you have all summer."-Elin Hilderbrand

"Charming, engagingly quirky, and full of fun, Claire Cook just gets it. Summer Blowout is irresistible!"-Meg Cabot

"As refreshing as an icy drink on a sultry day." -Family Circle

Bella Shaughnessy is addicted to lipstick with names like My Chihuahua Bites and Kiss My Lips, an occupational hazard, since she works as a stylist and makeup artist for her family's small chain of beauty salons in Marshbury, Massachusetts, along with her four half-brothers and -sisters. The owner is her father, Lucky Shaughnessy, a gregarious, three-times-divorced charmer with Donald Trump hair, who is obsessed with all things Italian and still carries a torch for his first wife, Bella's mother. After Bella's own marriage flames out spectacularly when her half-sister runs off with her husband, Bella decides she has seen enough of the damage love can do. She makes a vow: no more men.

Then Bella meets a cute entrepreneur at a college fair, and despite their bickering, they can't seem to stay away from each other. He also gives her a brilliant business idea, one that just might allow her to share her makeup expertise with the world. A small, well-tressed dog finds her way into her life, and her heart, and she decides to chance that, too. When the whole clan heads to Atlanta for a big Southern wedding, sparks fly-in a summer blowout no one will ever forget.

This hilarious, rambunctious novel is pure Claire Cook: full of juicy conflict and unconditional love.

"Lipstick rules in this sunny romance tucked inside a Boston family's chain of beauty salons...Snap this one up and enjoy the makeup advice."-Library Journal

"Summer Blowout is every bit as much fun as Must Love Dogs and Life's a Beach."-The Times-Picayune

"Laugh out loud."-Good Housekeeping

"Summer Blowout is primed, like Cook's previous novel Must Love Dogs, to become a big-screen romantic comedy."-Booklist

"Nobody does the easy-breezy beach book with a lighter hand than Claire Cook."-Hartford Courant