When travel influencer Hannah stops at her late grandfather's vacation home on the Outer Banks, she assumes her inheritance will be a bit of a fixer upper, but home nonetheless. However, when she arrives, she learns that her grandpa only owned half the house, and the other half has been willed to Simon O'Malley, the grandson of her grandfather's co-owner. The pair of them must live there for two months, and then decide jointly to keep or sell the house, which seems to be a big problem as Hannah's determined to keep the house while Simon is dead set on selling it.
This was an OK romance novel, with a pretty standard setup for an uncomfortable shared space forcing the romance to the surface, and a ridiculously fantastic dog. My main quibbles are that the two main characters' voices don't change much chapter to chapter, which makes it hard to tell whose chapter I was reading at a given time (this is not helped by the characters' tendency to refer to each other by surnames). Also, there's a brief conversation about the viral "man vs. bear" question, which felt really out of place and came to some disturbingly bad conclusions (They agree that only women who have been traumatized by men would choose the bear? Seriously?? I'll happily rant about this to you IRL, if you want.) It was a small bit, but it distracted me SO MUCH from the rest of the book, that it's the main thing I'll remember. Well, that and the dog.
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