Summer Benson is a flight attendant who loves her life and her career. She has just discovered that her handsome pilot boyfriend is planning on proposing to her in Paris. On the flight to Paris, their plane has mechanical problems and Summer survives a crash landing. While recovering in the hospital her boyfriend, although apologetic for his rotten timing, tells her that surviving the crash has made him revaluate his own life and he realizes that he doesn't love her. Summer finds herself in a terrible place, feeling heartbroken and lost. She remembers seeing an ad for Black Dog Bay, a small tourist town in Delaware that caters to the heartbroken with places such as the Eat Your Heart Out Bakery, Better Off Bed-and- Breakfast, and The Whinery and she heads there right away.

After running over his prized roses on her way into town, Summer attempts to win the heart of the town's mayor, Dutch. This proves to be easier said than done. He is raising his younger sister, Ingrid and has no desire to complicate his life even more with a woman on the rebound. Many have tried and many have failed. Summer loves a challenge! He is obviously attracted to Summer but at first, he doesn't act on it. The chemistry between these two and what they do to each other will have you laughing out loud!

Meanwhile, the locals accept her almost immediately and for the first time in her life, Summer doesn't feel like running. She feels like she belongs there. At the bar the owner gives her a drink called the CURE FOR THE COMMON BREAKUP, (recipe included), Summer is suddenly feeling all is right with the world until Hattie comes in. Her world is suddenly changed by Black Dog Bay's bitter and meanest resident, the wealthy Hattie Huntington. Hattie has a mean streak a mile wide and it's heading straight for Summer. How can Summer choose her happiness over the livelihood of her new friends? Leaving Black Dog Bay is going to be far more worse then what she was feeling when she first got there. Summer knows happiness for her is over but she knows her friends are safe and well in Delaware or so she thinks.

CURE FOR THE COMMON BREAKUP is a book I will recommend to everyone I know. It is a very funny, quick and a perfect read when you want to lose yourself in a book. It is one of those stories that will be very hard to put down once you start reading. It is the first time I have ever read Beth Kendrick but it won't be my last! I found myself laughing out loud many many times and when I wasn't laughing I was smiling like a fool! What a fantastic summer beach read! Whether it's stopping in for a drink at the Whinery, cookies at the Eat Your Heart Out bakery, shopping at Retail Therapy or joining in the burning of wedding dresses and sexy outfits on a driftwood campfire, you'll want to step right into the pages of this novel and join the girls!

Book Summary

Welcome to Black Dog Bay, a tiny seaside town in Delaware known as “the best place in America to bounce back from your breakup.” Home to the Better Off Bed-and-Breakfast, the Eat Your Heart Out bakery, and the Whinery bar, Black Dog Bay offers a haven for the suddenly single. Flight attendant Summer Benson lives by two rules: Don’t stay with the same man for too long and never stay in one place. She’s about to break rule number one by considering accepting her boyfriend’s proposal—then disaster strikes and her world is shattered in an instant. Summer heads to Black Dog Bay, where the locals welcome her. Even Hattie Huntington, the town’s oldest, richest, and meanest resident, likes her enough to give her a job. Then there’s Dutch Jansen, the rugged, stoic mayor, who’s the opposite of her type. She probably shouldn’t be kissing him. She definitely shouldn’t be falling in love. After a lifetime of globe-trotting, Summer has finally found a home. But Hattie has old scores to settle and a hidden agenda for her newest employee. Summer finds herself faced with an impossible choice: Leave Black Dog Bay behind forever, or stay with the ones she loves and cost them everything....

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