num_pages: 268
description: 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 flyin a summer blowout no one will ever forget.This hilarious rambunctious novel is pure Claire Cook: full of juicy conflict and unconditional love.
language: English
title: Summer Blowout
publisher: Marshbury Beach Books