As co-owner of Bayside Resorts, Rick Savage loves working alongside his brother and closest friends and running a thriving business in Washington, DC, that he will return to when summer ends. Being back on Cape Cod is bittersweet, though; the place stirs up painful memories he would rather leave buried. Then sweet, cautious preschool teacher Desiree Cleary moves in next door, and Rick finds himself drawn to her, certain she could be the perfect distraction. Running an art gallery was never part of Desiree's plans. Tricked into coming to the aid of her impetuous, unreliable mother, she is now stuck spending the summer with a badass half sister she barely knows and a misbehaving dog. As if that were not enough, she cannot escape the sparks flaring with her handsome, pushy new neighbor, the one who sets off every warning bell she has. Over a Cape Cod summer of sandy beaches and unexpected complications, a guarded businessman avoiding his past and an overwhelmed woman out of her depth keep colliding, testing whether a man already halfway back to the city and a woman rebuilding her footing can turn undeniable attraction into something that lasts.
A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author, Melissa Foster has written more than 100 novels and sold millions of copies worldwide. She is best known for Love in Bloom, a sprawling contemporary romance universe built from interconnected sub-series (the Snow Sisters, the Bradens, the Remingtons, the Ryders, the Seaside and Bayside Summers casts, and the biker-family Whiskeys and Wickeds among them) in which characters reappear across one another's stories. Her romances...
Can I read Bayside Desires as a standalone, or do I need to read the series in order?
You can read Bayside Desires on its own. It is book 1 of Bayside Summers, one of the interconnected sub-series in Melissa Foster's Love in Bloom collection, and every Love in Bloom book is written as a standalone with its own complete romance and a guaranteed happily ever after. Reading the series in order simply lets you follow the extended family as familiar characters reappear across the books.
Who are the main characters in Bayside Desires?
Bayside Desires follows Rick Savage and Desiree Cleary. Their romance is the heart of the book, set among the big, close-knit families Melissa Foster's readers return for.
How steamy is Bayside Desires?
Bayside Desires is an open-door contemporary romance, so it pairs its emotional story with on-page love scenes. Readers who prefer sweeter, closed-door versions can look for Melissa Foster's clean-language editions published under her pen name, Addison Cole.