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 received a free copy of this book to read and review for Wicked Reads, so here is my review.
This is the second book in the Bayside Summers series and it has all the friends and some new ones that make this story great.
Emery Andrews is a yoga instructor with specializing in back care. After a bad situation at her work, she moves to be closer to her BFF to work at the inn and the resort. But what she doesn’t realize is that she also wants to be closer to Dean. She met Dean while visiting Desiree and he became her BFF too. They talked each night and got closer to each other the months she was away.
Dean Masters was attracted to Emery from the first moment he saw her. He cherished every moment they spent talking, texting or any time they spent together. And having her move to the Cap and working at the inn and the resort only made it easier for him to spend time with her.
Will Emery give her and Dean a chance at a relationship before she ruins it? Will Dean make her see that they belong together? Can Emery make his father see that Dean is a good man even though he doesn’t follow in his footsteps? Can Emery get her yoga classes and her back-care specialist care going as she hopes?
I love this series and each one is as great as the other. If you are looking for a great series that will pull you in and have you laughing and leave you wanting more, then you need to read this series. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.
**Wicked Reads Review Team**
Perfection is hard to attain in any form. That’s what makes it so rare. To me, perfection in a book is one that makes me feel all emotions & is so lifelike it takes me time to emerge back to reality. Bayside Desires joins that rare list of perfect books for me. Tissues beside me, I entered the atmosphere of Cape Cod & a tight circle of people that, over the course of the book, became friends. My cheeks hurt from smiling, were wet from tears & I know I startled my dogs by laughing out loud in parts. Melissa Foster has a way with description & dialogue that truly paints a picture for you. Violet in her leather pants & t-shirt, all in black. Desiree with her rosy cheeks all aflame from the teasing about the “back room”. Rick with jealousy marking his good looks. Desiree & Rick both have to deal with their issues of hurt, abandonment & fear before they can decide their future. If you are looking for a way to spend a few hours & completely lose track of reality, this book is a must. Be prepared though. It’s a hot, sexy romance that you won’t be able to put down. You will read it all in one setting but the book hangover at work the next day with be worth it.
Kisses that turned a woman inside out is exactly what happens to Desiree in this sweet n’ sexy feel good romance. A hot jet skier is exactly the distraction she needs from the reason she’d been summoned to the Cape by the woman she called Lizza—her mother.
Desiree and her sister, Violet, only met at their grandmother’s Inn in the summertime after their parents split years before. Feeling abandoned by her mother and a complete opposite to both her mom and sister—one summer changes everything she ever felt.
And that hot jet skier turns up the heat, expands her horizons, and sweeps her away into a summer romance.
“…locking eyes with someone, you can only imagine what’s going to happen next…”
Both Desiree and Rick let their guard down, and in turn let romance take centre stage which leads to falling in love. Hard.
It turns out summer is the greatest matchmaker—and Cosmos…that cute dog that brings these two together!
Fixing up the Inn and running their mother’s art gallery for the summer, brings two sisters closer—mom’s plan all along?
Summer has this magical ability to send you straight into relaxation mode, and this author has the magical ability to instantly fill you with a surge of emotions. Love her romance!
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.
… Perfect reading for a beach afternoon, by the pool, or curled up a glass of wine. I will definitely be returning to the Cape!
Just another romance written to a formula.
Good
01/29/2021 “Bayside Desires” (nook) is a cute, romantic story with a good share of angst. Rick and Desiree have an instant attraction – even from a distance. Their love is deep. Also, I liked that they had very caring family and friends.
The reason for the 4 stars is the F-word. Not everyone talks like that! Other than that this book was great. Rick is awesome and Desiree is great. Rick is in Cape Cod as the co- ower of Bayside Resorts. It’s great being with us family but he also has bad memories there so after the summer is over and the renovations are done he has a thriving business in DC that he couldn’t wait to get back to until be meets Desiree on the beach and she ends up being his next door neighbor!!!
Running a gallery with her badass half sister was not what she had planned. Desiree is a preschool teacher that ends up being in Cape Cod after her mother, whom she doesn’t see much, tricked her.
When Desiree meets Rick and Rick and Desiree start spending time together, plans can change!! A great standalone with an HEA!!!
A wonderfully entertaining read! A quick fun story.
Couldn’t put it down!
I read the whole series! Great job!!
I enjoyed this book. Love her characters. Love books set around Cape Cod.
Wonderful, ended up buying the whole series!
The Mom is weird.
You know the feeling you get when you catch a glimpse of the author through their writing. They tell you that’s the best writing but, it’s not. People’s lives aren’t all cotton candy fluff. Liza is special because she’s a glimpse into Ms. Fosters own life. Either she is Liza or her mother was. Doesn’t matter it feels like I peaked into someone’s therapy session. Foster is becoming a better writer and making her characters more real. So, maybe they are right and that’s the best writing. (
Loved the book. A summer of unexpected situations that provide insights into family and new love.
Used the f word way too much so I wouldn’t recommend to anyone
This is set in WellFleet, Cape Cod. I’ve read other stories that have Wellfleet, so I knew I would like it. I am a fan of Melissa Foster. She writes excellent sex scenes … although they did finally get mostly repititous except for these two lovers being quite adventuresome in bed.
I really liked the story of each of them having to come to terms with their histories with their parent. I loved how their family were mingled into the story. Someday I look forward to the Serene’s story … although I do see that Dean and Emery are next.
Audiobook Review:
This was a really good kick off to a new series by Melissa Foster.
From the main characters Rick and Desiree to the secondary ones, and the plot, pacing, and level of steam. It all combined to make a really good story I enjoyed sitting back and listening to.
There were several family dynamics and issues to deal with. Things like strained relationships and loss had to be worked through. But I really liked how it all came together along with yet another strong narration performance by BJ Harrison.
Love Melissa Foster’s love of Cape Cod and how her knowledge of the place and it’s people shine thru. The cape is a background character in all of her books. Desiree and Rick are two people with emotional baggage whose love for each other gets them through that emotional baggage. I can see the rest of this series shaping up and will continue with it.
Love all series by Melissa Foster… this one is again complex characters overcoming the complexity of life and come to love one another… and just enough heat
Rick and Desiree meet on an island when Desiree comes back after an urgent message from her mother. Rick is working on a project and they fall in love. They each have their personal problems. As they try to work then out they come in contact with interesting characters. This book needs more substantial problems to improve the story.