Vivacious and spontaneous, Jenna Ward is confident about everything except the one man who has held her heart for years: quiet, reliable Pete Lacroux. After failing again and again to catch his eye, and worn down by her mother's new cougar lifestyle, Jenna finally decides to give up on Pete and start exploring other men. As the eldest of five siblings and caretaker to an alcoholic father, boat craftsman Pete has spent his life doing the right thing, with no room for a real relationship. But when Jenna picks up a hard-bodied construction worker, jealousy flares and forces Pete to confront feelings for her he never knew he had. He proves to be far from the reserved man everyone assumes, passionate and intense beneath the calm, yet his responsibilities still leave little space for love. As their circle of friends gathers for another summer at the Cape Cod cottages, Jenna has to decide whether she can handle the real Pete Lacroux, and Pete has to decide whether he can finally let someone in after years of holding everyone at arm's length.
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 Seaside Hearts as a standalone, or do I need to read the series in order?
You can read Seaside Hearts on its own. It is book 2 of Seaside 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 Seaside Hearts?
Seaside Hearts follows Jenna Ward and Pete Lacroux. Their romance is the heart of the book, set among the big, close-knit families Melissa Foster's readers return for.
How steamy is Seaside Hearts?
Seaside Hearts 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.