Fall in love at Bayside, where sandy beaches, good friends, and true love come together in the sweet small towns of Cape Cod.BAYSIDE SUMMERS is a series of standalone steamy romance novels featuring alpha male heroes and sexy, empowered women. They’re fun, flirty, flawed, deeply emotional, always passionate, and easy to relate to. In Bayside Desires…As the co-owner of Bayside Resorts, Rick … Bayside Resorts, Rick Savage has a fabulous job working with his best friends and brother, and a thriving business in Washington, DC, which he’ll be returning to at the end of the summer. Spending time with his family is great, but being back on Cape Cod has unearthed painful memories. When sweet, smart, and overly cautious Desiree Cleary moves in next door, Rick is drawn to the sexy preschool teacher, and she just might prove to be the perfect distraction.
Running an art gallery was not in preschool teacher Desiree Cleary’s plans, but after being tricked into coming to her impetuous, unreliable mother’s aid, she’s stuck spending the summer with the badass half sister she barely knows and a misbehaving dog. If that’s not frustrating enough, she can’t escape the sparks igniting with her strikingly handsome and pushy neighbor, Rick, who makes all her warning bells go off.
Passion ignites as Desiree and Rick spend long summer nights sharing heartfelt confessions and steamy kisses. For the first time in years Rick is enjoying life again instead of hiding behind mounds of work miles away from his family. Desiree has touched him in a way that makes him want to slow down. Only slowing down means dealing with his demons, and he isn’t sure who he’ll be when he comes out the other side.
All Bayside books can be read as standalone novels or as part of the series:
Bayside Passions
Bayside Heat
Bayside Escape
Bayside Fantasies
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Bayside Summers is part of the Love in Bloom romance collection by New York Times & USA Today bestselling and award-winning author Melissa Foster. While each book may be read as a standalone, you might enjoy reading the entire Love in Bloom series. Characters from each sub-series appear in future books. Visit Melissa’s website for family trees, series checklists, and more.
More Love in Bloom books:
SNOW SISTERS
Sisters in Love
Sisters in Bloom
Sisters in White
THE BRADENS (Weston, CO)
Lovers at Heart, Reimagined
Destined for Love
Friendship on Fire
Sea of Love
Bursting with Love
Hearts at Play
THE BRADENS (Trusty, CO)
Taken by Love
Fated for Love
Romancing My Love
Flirting with Love
Dreaming of Love
Crashing into Love
THE BRADEN WORLD NOVELLAS
Promise My Love
Story of Love
Our New Love
Daring Her Love
Love at Last
THE REMINGTONS
Game of Love
Stroke of Love
Flames of Love
Slope of Love
Read, Write, Love
Touched by Love
SEASIDE SUMMERS
Seaside Dreams
Seaside Hearts
Seaside Sunsets
Seaside Secrets
Seaside Nights
Seaside Embrace
Seaside Lovers
Seaside Whispers
Seaside Serenade
THE RYDERS
Seized by Love
Claimed by Love
Chased by Love
Rescued by Love
Swept Into Love
“With her wonderful characters and resonating emotions, Melissa Foster is a must-read author!” -NYT Bestseller Julie Kenner
“Melissa Foster is synonymous with sexy, swoony, heartfelt romance!” -NYT Bestseller Lauren Blakely
AUTHOR BIO
Melissa Foster is a New York Times & USA Today bestselling and award-winning author. She writes sexy and heartwarming contemporary romance, new adult romance, and women’s fiction with emotionally compelling characters that stay with you long after you turn the last page. Melissa’s emotional journeys are always family oriented. Melissa loves to chat with book clubs and readers, invite her to your next event.
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I cannot get enough of this series!! Highly recommend!
This captivating and emotional romance is a great start to the Bayside Summers series! I love the world that Foster has created that is filled with so much love, quirky and loyal friendships, and lots of steamy passion. Desiree and Rick’s sweet and steamy romance has them helping each other heal from their heartbreaking and lonely pasts. Desiree wants to reconnect with her sister, Violet, while they spend the summer saving their mother’s business. Rick is in Bayside using work to forget about his family, business, and the loss he’s suffered. Their first meeting doesn’t go well but as they spend more time together, Rick brings out her bold side, and Desiree makes him want to live again. I loved the growth of their relationship, how they helped each other heal, and grow stronger. They had so much fun together, and had great chemistry. This heartfelt, and charming story is filled with witty banter, quirky characters, awkward situations, and fiery chemistry. Narrator, B.J. Harrison brings these characters to life and makes you fall in love with this quaint seaside community. I loved this fun, sweet & sexy romance, and want more of these wonderful friends and family of Bayside!
Rick Savage proves that you can have it all, yet still feel empty inside. Between crossover characters, light hearted banter, meaty storytelling and new characters, I get to know and love, Ms. Foster is on the right tract with the Bayside Summers series. Bayside Desires is the first book in the series and it marks the beginning of something special. Rick and Desiree have had their fair share of painful moments. Abandonment issues, disappointment and loneliness have left Desiree with a heavy heart. For Rick, a tragic loss has left him with a bruised soul and a battered heart. There are moments where the Kleenex will prove to be a readers best friend and there are also instances where humor flows freely again. All these little pieces merge into a challenging and rewarding work of art.
Audiobook Review: Bayside Desires (Bayside Summers, #1) by Melissa Foster, BJ Harrison (Narrator) –
Kleenex is a must. Smiles are abundant and heart tingles are a given. Foster and Harrison team up to add a ton of heat to the summer by adding a little holiday to the heart. Rick and Desiree take love thy neighbor in a surprising direction. Home, heart and family add some dramatic twists as they make their presence known. Yet they do not take away that warm, welcoming feeling. Walking on the sunshine has never felt so good.
Rating: 4.5 Stars
Desiree Cleary has given me incentive to check out Wellfleet Massachusetts. I’ve lived in this state all my life and have even vacationed on the Cape but not once have I checked out that particular town. She has a great friend named Emery who keeps things light but tells her the way things are. I want to be her friend too. Desiree needs to be able to chill otherwise life may pass her by.
Rick Savage has a very interesting way of meeting women. He needs to work on it a little. But he must have something that resonates with Desiree cause they just can’t seem to stay away once that connection is made. There’s a saying “you just can’t make this stuff up”. We may not be able to but this author can and this book is proof of that.
Desiree has a sister Violet. I tried to leave her out of my review so that I could concentrate on Desiree and Rick but the author had other ideas. She’s got a personality you just can’t ignore and she made me laugh at every opportunity. At times I got worried that she would overshadow her sister but the author was good in bringing Desiree back into the forefront.
The author knows just the right moments to get her readers to laugh. One such scene is when Desiree decides to tell her mother off. And there were other times where I just couldn’t help myself and ended up busting out a laugh. Ms. Foster is also good in showing her readers that you don’t need a lot of sex, and I’m not saying that there isn’t some here, to have a lot of heat. Anticipation and the connection of the main characters works just as well. This was a great beginning to this new series and I look forward to seeing what Bayside Passions has in store for us.
I was not compensated nor was I required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.
Fun, creative characters.
Loved Rick and Desiree- can’t wait to read next book in series!
Fun and easy reading
Desiree gets an email from her flighty mother wanting her to come to Cape Cod and help prolong her life. Desiree’s mother and sister left her when she was young. Her and Violet, her sister, are practically strangers. Her sister gets a message saying Desiree needs her, so she rushes off to Cape Cod too. When they get there, their mother is leaving and tells the girls that they have to run her art shop or they’ll lose the Inn that was their grandparents.
Rick has a company in D. C. but has returned to help with renovations to the resort he, his brother, and best friend bought. He hasn’t stayed this long since he left for D.C. He has bad memories of his father being killed on a sailboat when he was a teenager. One look at Desiree and he is almost head over heels. They slowly date and get to know each other and keep falling for each other. Rick is only there for a month and Desiree will have to go back before school starts. Can they make a long distance relationship work?
Excellent story. Love the sisters. Steamy sex scenes. Everyone will want their own Rick.
I honestly don’t think there has been a book by Melissa that I have read that I didn’t love.
Bayside Desires is book one in the Bayside Summers spin-off series from Seaside Summers and I already cant to read more in the Bayside series!
Rick Savage is Mira’s brother who we met in Seaside Whispers, and he is the Cape working on a renovation project with his brother Drake and best friend Dean – Desiree is in the Cape under the pretence that her mother is ill or worse only to discover it was all a ruse to get her and her estranged sister Violet together for the summer whilst her mother goes off to “relax” – now I have to admit for the first time I did not like a character in Melissa;s book – Desiree’s mother! BUT…… that did change once I saw her reasoning but I mean come on who would lure their daughter making out they were dying and turn around and say they needed a holiday!
Desiree is such a sweet innocent young woman who is far different form her feisty outgoing free-spirited sister Violet, they didn’t spend much time together growing up, so there are bridged to be built between them over the summer and being thrust together in this situation by their mother is less than idea but they actually discover that they really get along great despite their differences.
When Rick first meets Desiree there is no denying the instant attraction between them, but both of them know that they are only in the Cape for the summer, so they make it a fling to remember. I really loved how Rick brought out the naughty side to Desiree and loved watching her grow from this innocent school teacher to vixen. I also loved how the both overcame scars from the past with the help of each other as if the fates brought them together for that very purpose – her mother was right after
This is a great start to series with sizzling hot romance, great characters and that feel good summer vibe.
Love all of her books.
I absolutely love love love Melissa’s books!! I just recently discovered her and love everything that she has written!
Melissa Foster always delivers! This new steamy couple does not disappoint! The way the characters grow and the real life relationships make this book easily relatable, well if we all got a romantic hunk in the end 😉 The family situations are real. The emotions are felt through the pages.
Love the series
A great start to a very promising series and its up to par with Melissa’s other stories.
This is a hot, easy and quick read that captivated me right from the beginning until the very end.
I loved the inno cence of Desiree and the total manliness of Rick and together they are just stunning.
Definitely looking forward to more in this series and I’m quite happy to recommend this first one.