summer employment

Kenzie Cane's second year at college ends with her landing the perfect summer job at the Bellmeade horse farm rehabilitating abused horses--the perfect escape from her mother's depression and her harrowing relationship with her father. However, Kenzie has her own limitations--her heart is physically weak. So, when the stable's owners assign her the charming stable hand Austin to help her with heavy lifting, Kenzie knows she should be grateful, and as they work together they grow closer. Then some of Austin's own secrets come to light and test the defenses Kenzie has put over her heart.

Gemma vows revenge against Hallie but things immediately get complicated when Ford, Josh, and Teddy return to the Hamptons but Gemma is scooping ice cream all day at her father's insistence, and just as the revenge cycle reaches its peak a life-changing bombshell is dropped.

In Christmas, Kentucky, fifteen-year-old Darby Peacher stumbles her way into a job at the town's run-down holiday-themed amusement park, Holly Jolly Land, but her summer quickly goes from merry to miserable when the boy of Christmas present is absent, the boy of Christmas past is her supervisor, and the town seems to be losing its cheer as it strives to become more commercial.

Seventeen-year-old Amelia has looked forward to her last summer before college working at the Meade Creamery, but when the owner of the local landmark passes away her nephew has big changes in mind.

Clara lives for pranks. But when she takes one joke too far, her dad sentences her to a summer working on his food truck---alongside her uptight classmate Rose.

After taking a summer job with a Chicago ghost tour company, eighteen-year-old Megan is interrogated for murder, when the reports of "real" ghost sightings increase along with the number of missing tourists.

"Jacky Hart has found a hidden talent in the performing arts, and she's a triple threat onstage! She wants nothing more than to act and sing all summer--but her parents have other plans for her"--Provided by publisher.

"Mia and her uber-loyal best friend unknowingly start a healthy smoothie business out of a mobile snow cone truck while catfishing the ex-boyfriend who wronged her"--Provided by publisher.

"Jacky Hart has found a hidden talent in the performing arts, and she's a triple threat onstage! She wants nothing more than to act and sing all summer--but her parents have other plans for her"--.

"Louna's years working at her mother's wedding planning business--as well as the tragic end of her first love--have shaped her cynical views on romance, but the arrival of serial-dater Ambrose may start to change Louna's mind and give her a second chance at love"--Provided by publisher.