Her first day working at a mansion-cum-museum, introverted Bailey, a white girl who sports platinum-blonde Lana Turner pin curls, meets Porter Roth, a 'ridiculously good-looking' but cocky 18-year-old security guard from a legendary local surfing family. The one perk of moving is that 'Alex,' her favorite chat-mate on a classic-film fan forum, lives there too, and she plans to surprise him-not that they know one another's real names (she goes by 'Mink' online). to her father's small beach town on the Central California coast. The summer before senior year, 17-year-old Bailey Rydell moves from D.C. Kirkus, Starred ReviewĪ movie-obsessed teen moves to her dad's beach town and unexpectedly falls for an edgy surfer rather than the 'film-buff soul mate' she was expecting to meet.

Approximately.Īn irresistible tribute to classic screwball-comedy romances that captures the 'delicious whirling, twirling, buzzing' of falling in love. The choice is both simpler and more complicated than she realizes, because Porter Roth is hiding a secret of his own: Porter is Alex. And as the summer months go by, Bailey must choose whether to cling to a dreamy online fantasy in Alex or take a risk on an imperfect reality with Porter. But life is whole lot messier than the movies, especially when Bailey discovers that tricky fine line between hate, love, and whatever-it-is she's starting to feel for Porter. Or that she's being heckled daily by the irritatingly hot museum security guard, Porter Roth-a.k.a.

Or that she's landed a job at the local tourist-trap museum. Faced with doubts (what if he's a creep in real life-or worse?), Bailey doesn't tell Alex she's moved to his hometown. Classic movie buff Bailey 'Mink' Rydell has spent months crushing on a witty film geek she only knows online by 'Alex.' Two coasts separate the teens until Bailey moves in with her dad, who lives in the same California surfing town as her online crush. About the Book Seventeen-year-old Bailey moves to California to live with her father and, perhaps, finally meet an online friend and fellow film buff, but soon finds herself attracted to an annoying co-worker.īook Synopsis In this delightfully charming teen spin on You've Got Mail, the one guy Bailey Rydell can't stand is actually the boy of her dreams-she just doesn't know it yet.

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