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USA TODAY BESTSELLER!\r\n\"Summer Blowout is irresistible!\"-Meg Cabot\r\n\"Reading Claire Cook might be the most fun you have all summer.-Elin Hilderbrand\r\n\r\n\"Summer Blowout is primed, like Cook\'s previous novel Must Love Dogs, to become a big-screen romantic comedy.\"-Booklist\r\n\r\nBella 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.\r\n\r\nThen 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 fly-in a summer blowout no one will ever forget.\r\n\r\nThis hilarious, rambunctious novel is pure Claire Cook: full of juicy conflict and unconditional love.\r\n\r\n\"Lipstick rules in this sunny romance tucked inside a Boston family\'s chain of beauty salons...Snap this one up and enjoy the makeup advice.\"-Library Journal\r\n\r\n\"Summer Blowout is every bit as much fun as Must Love Dogs and Life\'s a Beach.\"-The Times-Picayune\r\n\r\n\"Laugh out loud.\"-Good Housekeeping\r\n\r\n\"Nobody does the easy-breezy beach book with a lighter hand than Claire Cook.\"-Hartford Courant

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