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...
Bayside Romance

Bayside Romance
Synopsis
Screenwriter Harper Garner has weathered a long run of bad luck. When she got her shot at the big time in Los Angeles, she marked the brave cross-country leap with her first and only one-night stand, and connected so deeply with the brilliant stranger that she broke the cardinal rule and left him her number. Never hearing back was only the first in a string of hope-crushing, confidence-shaking blows. Now, starting over on Cape Cod, Harper runs headlong into the one man she has never been able to forget: Gavin Wheeler, a talented interior designer with a thriving business and a tight circle of his own. He is smart, romantic, and every bit as magnetic as she remembered, and the connection that once undid her flares right back to life through moonlit talks and slow, steamy kisses. But complications trailing out of Gavin's past threaten the fragile thing they are rebuilding, leaving Harper to wonder whether he is finally the one, or simply the next heartbreak waiting to happen. Over a Cape Cod summer, a battered but hopeful screenwriter and the romantic she cannot shake get a second chance at the night that started it all, if the past will let them take it.
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Harper GarnerProtagonist
A screenwriter starting over on Cape Cod after a run of bad luck.
Gavin WheelerProtagonist
An interior designer with a thriving business and the man from her unforgettable one-night stand.
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Frequently asked questions
Can I read Bayside Romance as a standalone, or do I need to read the series in order?
You can read Bayside Romance on its own. It is book 5 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 Romance?
Bayside Romance follows Harper Garner and Gavin Wheeler. 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 Romance?
Bayside Romance 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.















