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§ Release Date: December 17, 2013
Book #3
That One Summer is Book #3 in the mature young adult SUMMER SERIES, a series filled with intoxicatingly sweet romances and addictive, swoon worthy characters. The Summer Series is set in Onslow and it is here where you will meet the ruggedly handsome Onslow Boys - a group of men SO HOT in appearance and so likable in personality that’ll leave you craving MORE. Now imagine that, set it against a sizzling hot Australian background, fill it with good old Australian humour and there you have the Summer Series!
Loving Chris Henderson would be wrong. Diabolically disastrous. I mean, what is there about him to love? He’s moody, bossy, brooding, a control freak, and that’s on a good day … but there was one achingly obvious fact that haunted my every thought, every minute of every day …
He sure could kiss.
As the countdown to the new millennium begins, there is one thing everyone agrees on: no one wants to be in Onslow for New Year’s Eve.
So that can only mean one thing: road trip!
No longer the mousey, invisible, shy girl from years ago, Tammy Maskala is finally making up for all those lost summers. A new year with new friends, which astoundingly includes the bossy boy behind the bar, Chris Henderson.
She likes her new friends (at least most of them), so why does she secretly feel so out of place?
After chickening out on the trip, a last-minute change of heart sees Tammy racing to the Onslow Hotel, fearing she’s missed her chance for a ride. The last thing she expected to meet was a less-than-happy Onslow Boy leaning against his black panel van.
Now the countdown begins to reach the others at Point Shank before the party is over and the new year has begun. Alone in a car with only the infuriating Chris Henderson, Tammy can’t help but feel this is a disastrous start to what could have been a great adventure. But when the awkward road trip takes an unexpected turn, Tammy soon discovers that the way her traitorous heart feels about Chris is the biggest disaster of all.
Fogged up windows, moonlight swimming, bad karaoke and unearthed secrets; after this one summer nothing will ever be the same again.
He sure could kiss.
As the countdown to the new millennium begins, there is one thing everyone agrees on: no one wants to be in Onslow for New Year’s Eve.
So that can only mean one thing: road trip!
No longer the mousey, invisible, shy girl from years ago, Tammy Maskala is finally making up for all those lost summers. A new year with new friends, which astoundingly includes the bossy boy behind the bar, Chris Henderson.
She likes her new friends (at least most of them), so why does she secretly feel so out of place?
After chickening out on the trip, a last-minute change of heart sees Tammy racing to the Onslow Hotel, fearing she’s missed her chance for a ride. The last thing she expected to meet was a less-than-happy Onslow Boy leaning against his black panel van.
Now the countdown begins to reach the others at Point Shank before the party is over and the new year has begun. Alone in a car with only the infuriating Chris Henderson, Tammy can’t help but feel this is a disastrous start to what could have been a great adventure. But when the awkward road trip takes an unexpected turn, Tammy soon discovers that the way her traitorous heart feels about Chris is the biggest disaster of all.
Fogged up windows, moonlight swimming, bad karaoke and unearthed secrets; after this one summer nothing will ever be the same again.
I wasn't sure I really cared if I read Chris's story…..He was always behind the scenes, You know the responsible friend who took care of everything. Well Hell this book really had it all and more. I Loved it and seriously fell in love with Chris and Tammy. He was so cute with all the little things he did for his friends and Tammy. I loved the no nonsense attitude, if it doesn't concern you or me then I don't want to hear about it.
Chris was the forever Barman looking after everything and everyone!!
Tammy was Amy's friend back in high school, she was reconnected with Amy in book 2. So here we have Chris and Tammy's story……Buckle up peeps we are in for a long ride.
You learn a lot about shy Tammy who likes to stay in the background very much like Chris, I loved reading their Journey.
The gang plan a NYE trip, lots of bumps on the way to the destination. In this book we learn a few things about the other friends. Tess and Toby are facing difficult times, Ella and Adam…..Well they have a book coming out and I can't wait to read it.
Loved
Must
Read
It
4.5 FMR Hearts
Rose xx
Tammy was Amy's friend back in high school, she was reconnected with Amy in book 2. So here we have Chris and Tammy's story……Buckle up peeps we are in for a long ride.
You learn a lot about shy Tammy who likes to stay in the background very much like Chris, I loved reading their Journey.
The gang plan a NYE trip, lots of bumps on the way to the destination. In this book we learn a few things about the other friends. Tess and Toby are facing difficult times, Ella and Adam…..Well they have a book coming out and I can't wait to read it.
Loved
Must
Read
It
4.5 FMR Hearts
Rose xx
The Boys of Summer (Book #1)
It seemed only natural to nickname them the ‘Onslow Boys’. Every time they swaggered in the front door of the Onslow Hotel after a hard week’s work, their laughter was loud and genuine as they settled onto their bar stools. I peeked through the restaurant partition, a flimsy divider between my world and theirs. I couldn’t help but smile whenever I saw them, saw him ... Toby Morrison.
Quiet seventeen-year-old Tess doesn’t relish the thought of a summertime job. She wants nothing more than to forget the past haunts of high school and have fun with her best friends before the dreaded Year Twelve begins.
To Tess, summer is when everything happens: riding bikes down to the lake, watching the fireworks at the Onslow Show and water bomb fights at the sweltering Sunday markets.
How did she let her friends talk her into working?
After first-shift disasters, rude, wealthy tourists and a taunting ex-boyfriend, Tess is convinced nothing good can come of working her summer away. However, Tess finds unlikely allies in a group of locals dubbed ‘The Onslow Boys’, who are old enough to drive cars, drink beer and not worry about curfews. Tess’s summer of working expands her world with a series of first times with new friends, forbidden love and heartbreaking chaos.
All with the one boy she has never been able to forget.
It will be a summer she will always remember.
The Boys of Summer is a book I have always wanted to read, I just never got around to reading it. Now that I have read it I want MORE, MORE and a hell of a lot of MORE!!!
C.J Duggan has taken me back to the 90's with this series and I am Loving it. The Music, the lingo, the setting is real 90's. This book is centred around Tess and her best friends Ellie and Adam, I love the three way best friendship group.
Tess is 17 and Toby is 22, Tess has always had a CRUSH on Toby and finally gets to talk to him while working at the Onslow hotel over the summer break. The friendship processes over the summer and they become close. I loved how she came out of her shell, she started to live her life the way she wanted and went after her man. I am gonna come out and say that I wasn't happy with one Tess's decisions later in the book, and yes it really put me off her for a while it was so out of character.
I loved the whole gang, looking forward to reading more in Book 2 An Endless Summer.
4 FMR Hearts
Rose
xx
An Endless Summer (Book #2)
Sean looked out over the lake, squinting against the sunlight. He turned to me, his expression sobering as his eyes flicked over my face in a silent study.
“Come on Amy, I saved you once, I’ll save you again.”
I met his stare unflinchingly. “I don’t need saving.”
A wicked grin formed slowly. “Don’t you?”
After a rebellious summer night that almost claimed her life, Amy Henderson – the Onslow publican’s only daughter – is sent away to suffer a fate far worse than any other punishment:
Boarding School.
Three years on, a now nineteen-year-old Amy returns to Onslow for the summer. What once was a cauldron of activity with live bands, hot meals and cold beers, the Onslow Hotel now lies dark, deserted and depressing. All fond childhood memories of loitering on the hotel stairs and eavesdropping on customers’ colourful conversations are in the distant past.
How had her dad let it come to this?
With the new threat of putting the Onslow up for sale, Amy reluctantly turns to a local tradesman for help: Sean Murphy, the very same Onslow boy who saved her life all those years ago. With his help and that of some old friends, the task is clear: spend the summer building the hotel back up to its former glory or lose it for good.
In an endless summer, Amy soon realises that sometimes in order to save your future, you have to face your past, even if it’s in the form of a smug, gorgeous Onslow boy.
Amy & Sean's Story
Sean Saved Amy when she was 16 years old from drowning, soon after she was sent to boarding school
in the city. Well she's back at Onslow after a few years away. I loved how she has matured into a hard working young lady with plenty of stubborn pride. She comes back to find her fathers hotel is in need of a lot of work and who best to help with the Renovations…….Yummy Sean to the rescue!!!
I Loved every single bit of this story, Sean is Swoon worthy, Yummy and so full of charm. Amy takes you with her on the journey to rebuilding the Hotel and self discovery while falling in Love/Lust with spunky Sean. Tess, Toby, Ellie, Adam and the gang all come back during the summer break.
Loved it
4.5 FMR Hearts
Rose xx
C.J Duggan is the number one bestselling Australian author of the Summer Series! C.J lives with her husband in a rural border town of New South Wales, Australia. When she isn’t writing books about swoony boys and 90’s pop culture you will find her renovating her hundred-year-old Victorian homestead or annoying her local travel agent for a quote to escape the chaos.Novels in the Summer Series includes: The Boys of Summer (2012), An Endless Summer (2013) and the highly anticipated, soon to be released That One Summer (2013).
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