Seaside Summers features a group of fun, sexy, and emotional friends who gather each summer at their Cape Cod cottages. They’re funny, flawed, and will have you begging to enter their circle of friends.3-Book Boxed SetIN SEASIDE DREAMS Bella Abbascia has returned to Seaside Cottages in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, as she does every summer. Only this year, Bella has more on her mind than sunbathing … mind than sunbathing and skinny-dipping with her girlfriends. She’s quit her job, put her house on the market, and sworn off relationships while she builds a new life in her favorite place on earth. That is, until good-time Bella’s prank takes a bad turn and a sinfully sexy police officer appears on the scene.
Single father and police officer Caden Grant left Boston with his fourteen-year-old son, Evan, after his partner was killed in the line of duty. He hopes to find a safer life in the small resort town of Wellfleet, and when he meets Bella during a night patrol shift, he realizes he’s found the one thing he’d never allowed himself to hope for–or even realized he was missing.
After fourteen years of focusing solely on his son, Caden cannot resist the intense attraction he feels toward beautiful Bella, and Bella’s powerless to fight the heat of their budding romance. But starting over proves more difficult than either of them imagined, and when Evan gets mixed up with the wrong kids, Caden’s loyalty is put to the test. Will he give up everything to protect his son–even Bella?
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IN SEASIDE HEARTS
Jenna Ward is vivacious, spontaneous, and confident–except when she’s around the man who stole her heart years earlier, strikingly handsome, quiet, and reliable Pete Lacroux. After years of trying to get his attention and overwhelmed from dealing with her mother’s new cougar lifestyle, Jenna’s giving up on Peter–and is ready to explore other men.
As the eldest of five siblings, with an alcoholic father to care for, boat craftsman Pete Lacroux always does the right thing and has no time for a real relationship. He’s looking forward to seeing his friend Jenna, a welcome distraction who’s so damn sexy and so painfully shy that she equally entertains and confuses him.
When Jenna picks up a hard-bodied construction worker, jealousy ignites Pete’s true feelings, and he’s powerless to ignore the desires for Jenna he never realized he had. But Pete’s not the quiet guy he appears to be, and his life is anything but conducive to a relationship. Can Jenna handle the real Pete Lacroux–the sexiest, most passionate alpha male she’s ever seen–or will she crack under pressure? And can Pete reclaim the life he once had without tearing apart his family?
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IN SEASIDE SUNSETS
Jessica Ayers has lived a sheltered life with little more than cello lessons and practices taking up her day. Now a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, she escapes the prim and proper symphony to vacation in the Seaside community in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, and determine if she is living life to the fullest or missing it altogether.
For the first time since developing the second largest search engine in the world, billionaire Jamie Reed is taking the summer off. He plans to work from the Cape and spend time with his elderly grandmother–and falling in love is not in his plans.
From the moment Jamie and Jessica meet, the attraction is white-hot. Once-overly-focused Jamie can think of little else than sensual, smart, and alluring Jessica, and Jessica discovers a side of herself she never knew existed. But when Jamie’s business encounters trouble and his attorney and best friend intervenes, he proves that the blond beauty is too distracting for Jamie. To make matters worse, it appears that Jessica might not be who she says she is, turning Jamie’s life—and his heart—upside down. In a world where personal information is always one click away, Jamie must decide if he should trust his heart or watch the woman he loves walk away.
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A little repetitive when read in order.
***Seaside Dreams
5 stars
I purchased a copy of the steamy novel Seaside Summers book 1: Seaside Dreams: Bella and Caden by Melissa Foster and this review was given freely.
I haven’t laughed so hard in months! An unexpected and embarassing first meeting results in a steamy attraction at first sight romance for practical joker and high school teacher Bella with new comer single dad Officer Caden Grant who have both moved to Seaside to make big life changes. Tied in with the Remington series through author Kurt Remington, this complex and well balanced romance is set at the Seaside cottages in Wellfleet, Massachusetts and contains teenage angst, the mystery of neighborhood robberies, the wonderful grandmother Vera, and the summer antics of the close knit 20 something best friends Bella,Jenna, Amy and Leanna.
*** Seaside Hearts
5 stars
I purchased a copy of the steamy novel Seaside Summers book 2: Seaside Hearts by Melissa Foster and this review was given freely.
Poignant but with a happy ending this steamy novel takes place the summer after book one and contains the heavy topic of alcoholism and the continued lives of the four Seaside girls. With the interference of their friends,OCD inflicted elementary art teacher Bella and handyman/boat refurbisher Peter finally move past their parental worries, acknowledge their attraction and in the process bring healing to their families. There are also hints at a romance for Amy and Tony.
*** Seaside Sunsets
5 stars
I purchased a copy of the steamy novel Seaside Summers book 3: Seaside Sunsets: Jamie and Jessica by Melissa Foster and this review was given freely.
A nice balance of humor,angst and steam can be found in the latest rocky romance featuring the antics of Bell and the other Seaside Sisters. Returning to Seaside to spend his first full summer off in eight years with his grandmother Vera, Boston’s millionaire OneClick developer Jamie Reed has an unexpected first meeting with burned out and technology challenged Boston Symphony Orchestra cellist Jessica.
This series is as Addictive
Seaside Sisters
Each of these stories are about a group of friends that summer since they were kids at the cabins. And how each fall in love, the third is about one of the two guys in the group and he meets Jessica and becomes one of the sisters.
Stories in books good, but trashy with too much explicite sex.
Summer is my favorite season for reading because I love reading outside and I love to share a beach read find!! So here’s something for your Summer Tote!
—Seaside Summers Series—
A heartwarming beach read set at the beach full of family, community, friendship, first and second chances, and long overdue chances! It’s a blend of drama and complex characters…so realistic! Hey…we’re all a little complex! This group of fun, sexy, and emotional friends who gather each summer at their Cape Cod cottages will have you turning the pages to reveal their flames, secrets, and just everyday fun with summertime friends!
#goodtimes #crazyfriends #summermemories #steamy #contemporary #romance
great read I have the entire series
Melissa Foster’s series are always full of strong characters, family connections and romantic challenges to arrive at a positive conclusion… I always read the next volume immediately!
Wonderful characters! Hard to put down, ordered more in series!
Loved reading this book I stayed up most of night reading until I finished it I can not wait until the next book’s come out I’m so excited to get reading the other stories
Loved all three.
The three stories each have some good content and relationship issues. Also, you have to buy into the idea that these women and 1 or 2 guys who had families who summered here when they were growing up can still take summers off as adults to spend a couple months on the Cape.
Book 1 is the teacher and the cop. She quits her job in Connecticut and MIGHT move to the cottages year round (are the winterized?). He has just moved with his son to be a cop in this small town cause his partner got killed in his prior big city. They get hot and heavy on sex in nothing flat. Sex comes up often. Son has issues with new friends.
Book 2 is the girl who has been in love with the boat customizer for years but get tongue tied around him. After many years of ‘dancing’ around each other they fall in lust/love in this story. It has a sub-issue of each of them dealing with parental loss (his dad grieving mom and drinking; her mom grieving divorce and acting 25 years younger than appropriate). Again lots of sex scenes.
Book 3 adds a new character. While it has taken 20 years for the originals to form their tight knit circle, the Boston Symphony Orchestra cellist is ‘sistered’ right away. Long term planning in this cause she aligns with the Computer nerds grandmother (who raised him) who was a famous violinist until she had to raise him. Miscommunications abound and tear them apart. Again, right to bed, lots of sex scenes.
The actual content is well done if a tad bothersome. The sex scenes on a standalone book basis are well written but 3 in a row by same author became very repetitive. If you like a clean book with only implied and very light physical romance then you have a lot of pages to skip.
I enjoyed this book. I hope this is the way to go.
Easy read summer romances
These were lovely stories of friends on the Cape. I love the group of friends and the bond they shared but could have done with less of the intimate scenes,
It was a good summer read. Happy endings.
good
Easy read, very entertaining.
Great made me laugh..writing was great…I could picture everything. Made me think of my younger days..lol
Loved this book. Just finished Seaside Summer books 1-3. Hard time putting the book down. fun read, lots of interesting characters.
Not much of a story.