Ellie Brooks has a system for everything.
At Harbor Cove Beach Rentals, she knows exactly where every chair, umbrella, paddleboard, waiver form, and color-coded rental tag belongs. She is responsible, organized, dependable, and determined to prove she can handle management-level responsibility before the busiest summer of her life ends.
Then Wren Alvarez shows up for her first shift late, smiling, holding iced coffee, and somehow charming an angry tourist before Ellie can even finish being annoyed.
Wren is funny, fearless, impulsive, and very good with people. She is also terrible at following Ellie's carefully designed systems. She names the rental cart, invents walkie-talkie codes, steals Ellie's clipboard, and turns every ordinary shift into a small disaster Ellie absolutely does not find charming.
Probably.
As Harbor Cove Beach Rentals gets pulled into the town's biggest summer event, the Sunset Paddle Parade, Ellie needs everything to go perfectly. Her recommendation for a youth business leadership program depends on proving she can handle the pressure. But the more Wren becomes part of the rental shack's chaos, the more Ellie starts to wonder if control is not the same thing as safety-and if being needed is not the same thing as being loved.
Wren has spent too long being treated like the girl who will mess up eventually. Ellie has spent too long believing she has to be useful to be worth keeping. Between beach chair avalanches, missing paddles, sunset paddleboard lessons, boardwalk gossip, private walkie-talkie channels, and one almost-kiss Ellie tries very hard to turn into a workplace safety concern, both girls will have to decide if they are brave enough to trust something that cannot be planned.
Sweet, funny, and full of summer longing, The Summer Job Crush is a clean YA sapphic beach-town romance about opposites attracting, first love, learning to ask for help, and discovering that the best parts of summer are usually the ones that ruin the plan.
Perfect for readers who love:
Clean YA sapphic romance
Beach-town summer love stories
Coworkers-to-crushes romance
Opposites attract
Rule-follower meets charming chaos
Sweet first kisses
Boardwalks, bonfires, and small-town gossip
Found confidence, emotional honesty, and soft happy endings
