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...
Destined for Love
Destined for Love
Synopsis
Rex Braden is wealthy, hardworking, and fiercely loyal, running the family ranch by day and keeping the kind of no-strings company that asks nothing of his heart by night. That changes when Jade Johnson returns to their small Colorado town. Jade is the daughter of the man Rex's father has feuded with for more than forty years, and she has come home to regroup after walking away from a damaging relationship and the veterinary practice she built. When her injured horse forces her to accept Rex's help, the last thing she wants is a headstrong, too-handsome Braden unsettling the fragile peace she has found. Despite the poisoned history between their families, attraction flares between them, dragging fifteen years of stifled, forbidden feeling into the open. As their connection deepens, loyalties are tested and long-standing grudges strain to the breaking point, forcing both families to confront the cost of a decades-old rift. Rex and Jade must decide whether they are willing to defy their fathers and risk everything they have known for the chance at something real. Their story asks whether love can outlast inherited anger.
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Rex BradenProtagonist
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Jade JohnsonProtagonist
One of the central characters whose story drives the book.
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Frequently asked questions
Can I read Destined for Love as a standalone, or do I need to read the series in order?
You can read Destined for Love on its own. It is book 2 of The Bradens at Weston, 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 Destined for Love?
Destined for Love follows Rex Braden and Jade Johnson. Their romance is the heart of the book, set among the big, close-knit families Melissa Foster's readers return for.
How steamy is Destined for Love?
Destined for Love 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.