Instead of rolling my eyes, I was just smiling while envisioning Piper in a grocery store asking Siri what to make for dinner because she was completely clueless with the concept. Honestly, that type of heroine does not appeal to me in the least, but Bailey had me totally loving this girl. She shops all day and parties all night, documenting her exploits on Instagram. Piper is a 28 year-old and living her life off her stepdad’s Hollywood money. After reading the synopsis, I knew this story sounded so good as I love opposites attract romances, but I was so surprised how much I fell for these characters. OMG, for my first Tessa Bailey book, I have to say that I hit the jackpot. This was the perfect book to read this summer! I loved it and only want more of Piper and Brendan!Ĭongrats to Tessa Bailey for this book’s nomination as one of the best romance books of the year according to the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards. Piper is determined to prove everyone wrong and can’t risk any distractions, including the feelings she’s beginning to have for the sailor. Hoping to teach her a lesson, he sends her off to Washington to run her late father’s dive bar where she meets a big surly sea captain who instantly knows she doesn’t belong in their small town.īrendan figures Piper won’t last a week outside of Beverly Hills even if there is an undeniable attraction between the two opposites. I was tiny.Piper Bellinger may be a fashionable influencer, but when her wild child reputation goes a bit too far and lands her in the slammer, her stepfather cuts her off. You couldn’t do anything you couldn’t save your mom and run out the back door. I had to go back to the little girl and say you couldn’t do anything because I had guilt. “You just have to keep going, and we drag behind us all the pain and the trauma and things until we can heal from it. “Such a harsh reality of any crime like this is lives continue on,” said Fertig.

Shaina replayed her mother’s kidnapping in her dreams, wishing she could have made a difference.

But for Shaina Fertig, who at the age of four was called to testify in the murder trial against the man who ended her mom’s life, the trauma remained.

While many in the region can recall hearing of the women vanishing, the search parties and the court trials, eventually, life went on, and the details became blurry. It has been a healing journey for Fertig, as she wrote the book, “A Call to Remember, The Story of a Little Girl Who Wouldn’t Testify and the Woman Who Will.” In part one, we introduced you to Shaina Fertig and a book she just released about being the daughter of Piper Streyle, one of two women killed by Anderson.

Piper it happened one summer