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 HEAT…Drake Savage has always done the right thing, … always done the right thing, especially where beautiful and fiercely determined Serena Mallery is concerned-even when it means keeping his feelings for her to himself. Serena has always wanted more than what their small town of Wellfleet, Massachusetts has to offer, and Drake’s roots are so deeply entrenched in the Cape, it’s all he can do to watch her pack up her life and move away.
Serena has always had big dreams. As a teenager she dreamed of becoming an interior designer and marrying smart, musically inclined, sexy-as-sin Drake Savage. Now she’s finally landed a killer job with a top interior design firm, but though she has spent the last four years working side by side with Drake, he’s never made a move. Four years is long enough for her to accept reality, and her new job in Boston is the perfect way to move on.
A weak moment leads to sizzling, sensual kisses, opening a door through which they’ve both been aching to walk. But Serena’s determined not to give up her shot at the career she’s always dreamed of, and Drake has loved her for too many years to stand in her way. With true love at their fingertips and a world of unstoppable passion igniting between them, can the two star-crossed lovers find their way to their happily ever after?
BAYSIDE SUMMERS
Bayside Desires
Bayside Passions
Bayside Heat
Bayside Escape
“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
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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 (Treat)
Destined for Love (Rex)
Friendship on Fire (Josh)
Sea of Love (Dane)
Bursting with Love (Savannah)
Hearts at Play (Hugh)
THE BRADENS (Trusty, CO)
Taken by Love (Luke)
Fated for Love (Wes)
Romancing My Love (Pierce)
Flirting with Love (Ross)
Dreaming of Love (Emily)
Crashing into Love (Jake)
THE BRADENS (Peaceful Harbor, MD)
Healed by Love (Nate)
Surrender My Love (Cole)
River of Love (Sam)
Crushing on Love (Shannon)
Whisper of Love (Tempest)
Thrill of Love (Ty)
THE BRADEN WORLD NOVELLAS
Promise My Love
Story of Love
Our New Love
Daring Her Love
THE REMINGTONS
Game of Love (Dex)
Stroke of Love (Sage)
Flames of Love (Siena)
Slope of Love (Rush)
Read, Write, Love (Kurt)
Touched by Love (Boyd)
SEASIDE SUMMERS
Seaside Dreams (Bella)
Seaside Hearts (Jenna)
Seaside Sunsets (Jamie)
Seaside Secrets (Amy)
Seaside Nights (Sky)
Seaside Embrace (Hunter)
Seaside Lovers (Grayson)
Seaside Whispers (Matt)
THE RYDERS
Seized by Love
Claimed by Love
Chased by Love
Rescued by Love
Swept Into Love
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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Drake and Serena have known each other forever! He’s had a crush on her, also for forever, and her on him. However, each doesn’t know about the other, yet. She’s such a help in his business, but he knows she has dreams of leaving town to make it big as an interior designer. For that reason, Drake has romantically stayed away from her because he wants the best for her..even if it means his love life suffers.
Will these two give into their feelings for each other? What a journey Melissa Foster took me on with this story! I was so in love with Drake! He was everything I’d ever want in a man!! This story was sweet and oh so sexy!!
Serena and Drake have known each other since they were kids, and Serena has been in love with Drake almost that long. Having given up on her dreams of Drake, Serena is ready to follow her career dreams and leave Bayside for Boston.
Drake never wanted Serena to give up on her dreams and goals, so he’s hidden his feelings for years. Now that Serena is leaving, will he be able to keep hiding?
Feelings come out, and these two have enough heat between them to burn up the pages, but will that be enough? How do two strong willed people deal with distance, work, responsibilities, families and friends? As work pulls at Serena, will she choose Drake or the career she always wanted?
Bayside Heat is the third book in Melissa Foster’s Bayside Summer series. This series just keeps getting better with each book Melissa writes. Our visits back to Wellfleet and the Cape with these books is like coming home. Drake Savage and Serena Mallery are the main characters in Bayside Heat and let me tell you this is one HAWT book. There is no doubt even from page 1 that this couple belongs together. Drake will do whatever it takes to make sure Serena has her dream, never realizing that he is her dream come true. Serena waits patiently for Drake to make a move and when she finally gives up and decides to move on something magical happens. Donuts, dogs and steamy dreams make up Bayside Heat. The chemistry between Drake and Serena is magical and this story is one fast paced thrill ride. Visits back into the lives of some of our other Cape friends, the Montgomery and Braden family add to the homecoming feeling. Although this book is a standalone and could be read without the rest of the series – why would you? Start at the beginning and fall in love with this magical world that Melissa has created for us to get lost in.
Things are really heating up in Bayside with this new instalment from Melissa! I love how her book titles perfectly reflect the story within the pages.
Serena Mallery and Drake Savage have been friends since childhood and for Serena she has crushed on him for a long long time, but thinking that he only saw her in a brother/sister type relationship and an almost kiss that he pulled away from when she was in high school. she has put him to the back of her mind and moved on – to her friends she has anyway but the heart knows what the heart wants and her heart wants him.
Faced with a wonderful job opportunity that will see her move to Boston and leave her friends and Drake behind, pushed her to tell him how she really feels but what she wasn’t expecting was the same feeling in return – sure she has dreamed of the scenario every night for years and years but now all the cards on the table what will become of their relationship?
You will have to read Bayside Heat to find just exactly how they overcome the obstacles they are facing, but one thing I can say is that this that you are in for one steamy ride as these two are meant to be together and one thing Melissa does well is write friends to lovers story lines that are not only passionate but with lovable realistic characters to boot.
OMG! Talk about HOT! Drake Savage and Serena Mallery are amazing together. Watching how they go from friends to more than friends was soooo good!!! Absolutely loved this book. If you like HOT ALPHA MEN who are so much more than this is the book for you! Your emotions will be all over the place, but you will also have a LOT of laughs!
I haven’t read all of the Bayside stories, however this did not affect my enjoyment of Bayside Heat, and I will be going back to read them in the future.
Bayside Heat is a beautiful story of friendship, of family, of taking the chance on love.
I wanted to clonk Drake and Serena’s heads together to make them get their act together, to get one of them to make that first move. For them to find love.
I freaking adore all of the Cape Cod “family”. I love how they all saw what Drake and Serena had been denying, and how they all kinda “pushed” our lovelies together.
Bayside Heat is a lovely look down memory lane for Drake and Serena, as they move from the friend-zone they have placed each other in over the years. There is something to be said about being friends before diving in to a sexual kind of relationship, and you can feel the mutual love for each other.
I laughed at some of the antics from the other Bayside couples – it was great to catch up with them all again.
Sweet and tender with a lot of heat, Bayside Heat was a perfect weekend read for me.
I can’t wait to see what Ms Foster bring us next.
Bayside Heat (Bayside Summers, #3) by Melissa Foster …..WOW I don’t know how I miss the first two BAYSIDE SUMMERS …but I will go back and read them. I totally fell in love with all friends and family in this book… Drake and Serena have loved each other forever… he didn’t want to hold her back..she thought he didn’t see her as anything other than a friend. Melissa always makes me feel as if I am part of the story…through the laughs, tears, hard choices and steamy sex to get to a very HEA… I can’t wait for BAYSIDE ESCAPE to see who is next to fall in love…
Rating: 4.5 Stars
Serena Mallery has decided that a change is necessary. But does a move make her happy? Was it the right decision? Drake Savage doesn’t seem to be happy about something. But is he smart enough to change that? Life’s choices can sometimes be hard but our friends and lovers make it easier.
Our author could probably create a romantic comedy in her sleep. It was interesting to watch her create the romance between two friends. The comedy part comes in the form of Serena’s friends – especially Violet. She also knows how to create heat and frustration between said friends. All the different types of love between friends is a very important theme here. Friends are a good sounding board when we need to bend an ear or even if we need an opinion. This is one thing that I love about this author. She lets us get to know the friends a little better without sacrificing the main story of two people who finally coming to realize that they are more than friends. And one to never disappoint she’ll give us that happy ending. But she made me even happier by showing that my patience has paid off – I’ve been waiting so long for this friend to have her own story. I also got an eyebrow raising surprise – looking forward to it.
I was not compensated nor was I required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.
4 1/2 STARS!
The Bayside gang is always good for lots of laughs, feel good moments and steamy sexy times and that certainly holds true for Drake and Serena’s story! We’ve obviously seen them and their sexual tension in previous stories, and this one brings them to the forefront and has their life start to be upheaved as Serena makes plans for the future. The characters were well developed and the chemistry was off the charts. The storyline was a little cliche, but it worked so well … she woke up her man!
For four years, Serena Mallery as been working side-by-side with the man that she’s been lusting after since she was in high school. They are the very best of friends, but she wants more so bad she can’t stand it, but Drake is steadfast in friend zoning her. She can’t take it anymore, so when a dream job shows up on the horizon for her, she decides it’s time for her to jump at the chance … even if it means leaving the Cape and heading to Boston!
Drake Savage is just as into Serena as she is to him, but he’s not willing to compromise her dreams and hold her back. He’s a Cape guy through and through and doesn’t ever want to change that, but Serena has always dreamed of making it big in the city and doing great things with her life. He wants that for her … even if it means he’s had to bury his desire for all of these years. But things have a way of changing when turmoil is in the air, and that’s exactly what happens when she announces she’s moving to Boston. He wishes her well, but it’s going to be hard not having her by his side day in and day out … and that pull just might lead to a kiss before she leaves … and that kiss, just might lead to feelings being shared!
Thirty-one year old Serena Mallery has watched her friends find successful, fulfilling careers and fall in love in the past few years. Serena has been attracted to Drake Savage since she was a teenager. Drake has decided that he and Serena are friends-no more, no less. Serena realizes that she needs to move off Cape to find romantic and professional happiness and accepts a position with an interior design firm in Boston.
Serena’s decision to move to Boston is the catalyst in this passionate friends to lover’s romance. Drake is blindsided by Serena’s news. He thought she would continue to work at the resort, help him with his music stores and take interior design jobs from time to time. Serena’s moving to Boston has rocked Drake’s comfortable world. At first, I thought that Drake was a broody, self- centered guy. The honest, thoughtful back and forth banter between Drake, Rick and Dean changed my mind. I realized that Drake was a complex, caring man. Drake had to acknowledge the depth of his feelings for Serena. I never doubted that Drake loved Serena with all of his heart as he did not want Serena to choose between him and her dreams.
In Bayside Heat, Melissa Foster tackles several important relationship issues—honestly, trust and believing in yourself. Serena and Drake have a great working relationship; they understand each other, Drake relies on Serena’s organizational skills and trusts her trusts her design sense. The couple faces a few challenges when their long distance relationship heats up. Commuting, work obligations and personal promises test the couple.
I loved reconnecting with the Bayside couples and Violet. Violet’s unfiltered remarks are hysterical and spot on. Her character adds a lot of humor and honesty to the storyline. The friendships between Drake and Serena and their friends is so important in this series. The Bayside characters support, laugh and listen to each other. I adored the scene when Drake cruised to Boston with Matt, Mira, Hagen, Dean Emery, Rick and Desiree and picked Serena up at the Seaport dock. Drake brought the party to Serena.
Bayside Heat is a heartfelt, sensuous, romantic novel. Mellissa Foster creates a friends to lover’s story with a twist. Both characters grow during the story. Drake acknowledges his feelings for Serena and trusts Serena with his heart. Serena learns to stand up for herself professionally and figures out her path to balance her professional and romantic desires. Bayside Heat is one of my favorite novels of 2018.
And the epilogue? Perfect – it’s full of love, happiness and romance!
The heat is on. Foster steps into the season with a whole lot of sunshine and a hint of heartache. Bayside Heat is a tempting walk down memory lane with two friends afraid to risk their hearts? Serena wanted forever, but Drake never made a move. Relocated to the friend zone, she’s given up hope of ever having more. When a once in a lifetime opportunity comes her way, will Drake face his fears and listen to his heart? Funny, sunny and sweeter than honey.