Discover the magic of New York Times bestseller Melissa Foster’s writing, and see why millions of readers have fallen in love with the Bradens. In Anything for Love… with passion and intrigue-even if only fictional. She loves her busy, quiet lifestyle, and she learned early on that real men can’t live up to the fictional heroes she creates-until ruggedly handsome Beau Braden arrives to do some work at the inn and, for the first time in forever, she’s intrigued by a real man.
Beau lost his first love years ago, and he’s never let go of his guilt over her death. As he nears the anniversary of his loss, he is on the cusp of becoming the star of a home-renovation reality show. Escaping the painful memories of his past to work at the defunct old inn is just the promise of solitude he needs to clear his head before diving in to the all-too-public career. But he didn’t count on being attracted to the whimsical, adorably sexy innkeeper.
Neither Charlotte nor Beau is looking for an attachment or a fling. But the more they learn about each other, the closer they become. Romantic evenings lead to intimate conversations, and neither can deny their deep connection or the passion it sparks. They’ve never fully healed on their own, but together maybe anything is possible.
All Love in Bloom novels are written to stand alone and may also be enjoyed as part of the larger series, so dive right into this fun, sexy romance.
THE BRADENS & MONTGOMERYS (Pleasant Hill – Oak Falls). Order of future books is subject to change.
Embracing Her Heart
Anything For Love
Trails of Love
Our Wicked Hearts
Searching for Love
Wild Crazy Hearts
Summer of Love
Hot For Love
Sweet Sexy Hearts
Winter of Love
Claiming Her Heart
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“When it comes to contemporary romances with realistic characters, an emotional love story and smokin’ hot sex, author Melissa Foster always delivers!” The Romance Reviews
“You can always rely on Melissa Foster to deliver a story that’s fresh, emotional and entertaining. Make sure you have all night, because once you start you won’t want to stop reading. ” New York Times Bestselling Author Brenda Novak
“With her wonderful characters and resonating emotions, Melissa Foster is a must-read author!” New York Times Bestseller J. Kenner
“Melissa Foster is synonymous with sexy, swoony, heartfelt romance!” New York TimesBestseller Lauren Blakely
“I highly recommend this book to fans of Nora Roberts (one of my personal faves) and fans of a sweet story filled with heat and heart.” – Tia Bach, author (on Sisters in Love)
“Melissa Foster is quickly becoming one of my favorites. Fated For Love was amazing. It kind of reminds me of Jill Shalvis’ books and they are my benchmark for contemporary romance awesomeness.” –Books Like Breathing
“I highly recommend the Snow Sisters all the Braden and Remington books….They remind me of the McCarthy of Gansett series and The Green Mountain series. I am a huge fan of Marie Force. And now Melissa Foster has joined her ranks….” – I Love NY, Reviewer
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All Love in Bloom novels are written to stand alone without any unresolved issues or cliffhangers. Love in Bloom features alpha male heroes and sexy, empowered women. They’re flawed, funny, passionate, and relatable to readers who enjoy contemporary romance and women’s fiction. Characters from each sub-series appear in future books.
Love In Bloom Series
Snow Sisters
The Bradens at Weston
The Bradens at Trusty
The Bradens at Peaceful Harbor
The Bradens & The Montgomerys (Pleasant Hill – Oak Falls)
The Remingtons
The Ryders
Seaside Summers
Bayside Summers
Wild Billionaires After Dark
Bad Billionaires After Dark
Harborside Nights
The Whiskeys & Tru Blue
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Enjoyed reading this book.
Loved reading it!
Love this series! Melissa writes warm and believable characters. Would recommend.
If you like a story without a lot of violence but has romance, this is a book for you.
Charlotte lives alone in the mountains writing erotic books. Beau arrives to fix up her home. Beau has lived with the guilt of the death of his girlfriend ten years ago. Charlotte charms Beau and helps him deal with his past.
Absolutely a really good story and characters. I can always count on a wonderful story that I can’t put down from Foster.
Wonderful characters, great story!!
Mix erotic with romantic. With so much sex descriptions I did some skimming over them. The story itself is very good. I kept expecting it to wrap up, but it continued on to deal with another issue. So, very complex made it quite long. But, I enjoyed it.
Loved this story and the hardships both Charlotte and Beau have lived through. It seems that each has had their own coping methods while both seem to through themselves into work beau has been avoiding all those who are linked to his old life and the life of his lost love and girlfriend Tory. While Charlotte has slowly lost her whole family starting with her parents in high school and then her grandfather who raised her after the fact. They meet by mutual friends and family and beau is there to help fix and renovate parts of her inn she inherited from her grandfather. Sparks instantly fly and they are soon sucked into her erotic romance writing world and her fairy tale hoped infused life and dreams. Such a food story. Where you see so many people come together to help a loved one who is lost and broken but just needs to find themselves on their own first before confronting demons from their past.
4.5 Stars!
I loved this hilarious romance that was filled with heat and heart! Charlotte Sterling and Beau Braden are total opposites but so perfect together. Beau is serious, and guarded and carries alot of guilt after his girlfriends sudden and tragic death. He takes a job repairing the Sterling Inn that Charlotte owns to avoid being around family and friends around this sad anniversary. What he didn’t expect to find is a beautiful, quirky, woman who radiates happiness and hope. Charlotte is an erotic romance author and her methods are so unconventional making their meet cute absolutely hilarious. Beau doesn’t know what to make of her and the crazy names she gives her toys, animals. He is amazed how consumed she gets in her work, not noticing the simplest things around her. He is a total caretaker and easily falls into fixing things around her, including her writer’s block. Charlotte and Beau are my favorite Foster couple! I loved how they melded together so easily, drawing from each other’s strengths, and their chemistry was absolutely explosive!
Ava Erickson, and Zachary Webber were so perfect as Charlotte and Beau. Erickson nails Charlotte’s adventurous and spirited personality, while Webber flawlessly depicts the broken, protective, and swoony Beau with a heart of gold. They both have a great range of voices and emotion that easily bring this funny, heartwarming and steamy story to life.
Connecting. Sad. Heavy. Loss. Grief.
Overall 4 out of 5 stars
Performance 5 out of 5 stars
Story 4 out of 5 stars
02-16-20
Beau had experienced a loss that took him far and wide from home, family, and isolated himself away from friends. As the anniversary of this loss creeps ever closer, he finds a way to not be in the one place that created those deep lasting memories/nightmares. On this excursion from home he finds so much more than just a job. He finds a soul that draws him near, Charlotte. She lacks all sense of security, safety. She too has run from her painful demons, but she found a way to make them easier to tolerate. She will always have the loss of those she loved but she found a safer channel to filter it through.
Charlotte was the ray of light that Beau’s dark isolated life needed to come home. And for Charlotte he was more real than the lifesized blow up dolls she used for working though problems.
The was light, pain, sadness, loss, grief, friendship, family.
Ava and Zachary brought to life the characters and gave them each their own place in the story. The brought the words on the page to life and gave the characters depth beyond the two dimensional.
What a concept with these two characters! An erotic romance author that stages her sexy scenes with blow-up dolls. Plus one hunky carpenter turning to TV celebrity to ply his wares for all to see. This story starts off on a fun note but ends with love all around.
Both Beau and Charlotte have a lot to teach the other. Charlotte shows Beau what love really is after his past relationship tragically ended with a death. Then Beau shows Charlotte what two consenting adults can actually do between the sheets for her stories erotic love scenes. They have to decide if their love can last and give up a part of themselves to be whole together or not.
The narrators were absolutely wonderful to listen to.
My first read by this author, a nerve wracking experience when you really hope you like them because a fave author recommended this book.
I will say the start had me worried, humour doesn’t always translate well across the world. But I soon settled in because I was enjoying the story line so much. Family unity, friendship, unwarranted guilt, romance, fairy tales…so much happening made for an entertaining read. I loved Charlotte and Beau and need to go back and find the first book now, don’t worry this one stands alone if you’re starting here.
The characters had some good lines. The sex was a little overwhelming. It passed time pleasantly.
This book is amazing. I love everything about it. I was wondering if Charlotte was going to have her own book and I was not disappointed at all. She is the funniest character ever and Beau is the sexiest, romantic hero ever.
Beau Braden didn’t know what to expect when he first arrived at Charlotte Sterling’s Colorado mountain inn, but it definitely wasn’t her wearing very little clothing and having a blowup doll handcuffed to a bed. But as an erotic romance novelist, those things are totally normal in Charlotte’s life, especially since she’s been living a very solitary life at the inn since losing her last living family member. Hiding from his own tragic past of losing his first and only love, Beau’s perfectly content to just do his job of fixing up some things around the inn and steering clear of Charlotte’s crazy antics. But Charlotte has a different plan. She’s been suffering from some serious writer’s block and everything about Beau has Charlotte worked up about a non-fictional man for the first time in ages. And what’s the harm in a little flirting if it helps her work through some scenes?
This, this, is what I’ve been waiting for from Melissa Foster’s books. I’ve seen people wax poetic about them while I have finished a handful of them feeling rather dissatisfied. One of my biggest issues with this large, interconnected collection of series does still remain true; there are far too many supporting characters that have been introduced in other books/series and I either feel overwhelmed or sometimes punished for not having read every single book in this series, especially when each book is touted as being a standalone. But because of the nature of this book being that Charlotte and Beau spent most of their time relatively alone, most of the other extended family members came into play slowly and over the course of the book and, for once, I didn’t feel bombarded with fifteen characters I couldn’t keep track of, finally giving me an opportunity to actually enjoy the book and the main characters.
I also thoroughly enjoyed the plot of this book. Whereas previously I’ve felt like there wasn’t much story going on, even though this book didn’t really have a major conflict, it still worked for me. There wasn’t real conflict (or even contrived drama) that forced Charlotte and Beau apart and that was actually great. Instead, because both characters had their own demons and personal issues to move past, they were able to just be supportive of each other and that made for a really sweet love story.
And the characters were really intriguing to me. Charlotte was beyond insane at times, but in the most charming and fun way ever. And I adored that Beau just sort of went along for the ride with the crazy and didn’t try to change Charlotte, just changed a few things around Charlotte to give her the room to do the crazy while still staying safe. It made for a dynamic between the two of them that was really fun to read. And I also really appreciated that Beau and Charlotte’s relationship was deeply built on a platform of mutual admiration and total respect for the other person, especially when it came to their careers and the time that took in their lives. It gave their relationship deeper emotion and made it believable that they really didn’t have any major drama keeping (or driving) them apart.
I’m maybe not a total Melissa Foster convert yet and I probably won’t be rushing out to read every single one of the previous books in the Love in Bloom world, but this book helped convince me to give some books, especially future books in this series, a shot.
I’m a sucker for a fairytale love story and Beau & Charlotte definitely fit the bill. Beau comes into Charlotte’s life to do repairs on her inn and Charlotte brings that grumpy beast back to life. She gets to move on from blow up dolls for story help to having her imagination fired by her passions with Beau. And she helps him heal the wounds to his heart while showing him a new path tn life. We get to see some of the Bradens & Montgomerys and a whole new world of fun. Sexy, sweet, charm your socks off, happily ever after love story.
I received an advanced copy of the book in exchange for my honest opinion.
ALL. THE. STARS!!! Omg my heart is brimming with delight over this book!!! Like exploding stars, fairy tale romance and love everlasting Beau and Charlotte’s story is so captivating, enchanting, sexy and funny.
I haven’t read a book by Melissa Foster before, and ohhhh man, am I ever happy I popped my cherry with this one!!! Melissa’s writing is soo incredibly descriptive, without over verbalizing, that I could see every scene through Charlotte’s eyes and I was mesmerized. Charlotte is this crazy unorthodox erotic romance writer that lives a life believing in fairy tales and everlasting love. Her love of all things dreamy, whimsical, sparkly and storybook-like truly spoke to my heart! She’s one of my favorite characters this year!!
And then there was Beau – ahhhhh I swoon, I sigh…..He is a handy man, dreamy Mr Fix It with a heart of gold. Sent to assist Charlotte with fixing up her Inn, he NEVER expected to have her take over his heart and soul. He would do anything for her, and seriously, I melted!
This whole book was a dream, I swooned so HARD, I loved it so much (I even bought the paperback!!). I can’t wait to dive into more Melissa Foster books. But I just can’t keep Charlotte and Beau off my mind. It’s literally a week later, and I can STILL feel them in my bones. Anything For Love is a MUST READ for EVERY romance lover! I can’t say it enough 🙂
Loved this one.
One of the most heart-rending moments is when we blame ourselves for the death of a loved one. Where we keep second guessing ourselves as to whether or not we could have done more or do something differently that would have prevented their death. Beau Braden has been carrying that weight on his shoulder for almost a decade. A weight which isolated him from family and friends as he believed they also blamed him for the tragedy. This weight bogged him down to the point where every year on the anniversary he distanced himself further away from his family. This year was no different. He intends to take up a job offer has a reality TV host in LA. However, before he does, he gladly took on a repair job at Sterling Inn on the recommendations of his uncle. What he never expected was the sexy, but conservative Charlotte Sterling who would turn his world inside out.
Charlotte Sterling is an erotic romance writer who is suffering a case of writer’s block with her current novel. To address this she role-play with blow up dolls and a variety of sex toys. It was during one of her role-plays she came face to face with Beau. I bet you can imagine how that meeting went. (wink). I will tell you this much it had me laughing. Even now as I am writing this review, the memory has me grinning from ear to ear.
These two, although opposites are a match made in heaven. Charlotte was looking for the type of love her parents shared. Stuff made of fairy tales. She wants to experience a relationship where intimacy meant something, not just a quick roll in the hay. She thought that kind of love no longer existed, but that was until she met Beau. Beau was not looking for love in any size, shape. However, Charlotte stirred feelings he never expected to experience again. Pain ruled his life. He refuses to let go of the pain from the past. However, Charlotte as a believer of true love and fairy tale endings was determined to show him he could experience love once again. She restored hope and love in his life.
Watching them together was such a delight. Their interactions with each other were sweet, heartwarming and hot. They blended into each other’s world and I loved how Beau assisted her in her research with writing a scene. They helped to build each other, which aided in their journey of healing, self-discovery and love.
The story was exactly what I expected from Miss Foster. Heartwarming, sweet and steamy, with a focus on family friendships. This was a quick and easy read although there were moments when I found it dragged somewhat. However, this did not prevent me from enjoying the story.
Conclusion/Recommendation
Once again, Melissa Foster delivered a sweet, sizzling and heartwarming story with relatable characters. Fans of contemporary romance will enjoy this new addition to the Bradens and Montgomery series.