Fall in love at Bayside, where sandy beaches, good friends, and true love come together in the sweet small towns of Cape Cod.
Bayside Desires by Melissa Foster
Bayside Summers #1
Releasing May 9, 2017
World Literary Press
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.
After receiving a urgent messages to come back because her mothers life is at stake so Desiree returns to Cape Cod. But it seems likes its another one of her mothers stunts and show she and her sister is stuck taking care of her mothers gallery. Along with that, Desiree is fighting her feeling towards Rick who is here for the summer helping out some friends and family with a resort and dealing with his own set of painful memories being back in Cape Cod.
I really enjoyed this book. I loved the characters and dual perspectives of Desiree and Rick. There were plenty of fun moments I couldn't help but find myself laughing to myself about. There was plenty of heat and steamy scenes between the characters that I loved. I also enjoyed seeing how the sisters that were estranges work together and once again act like a family again. I also thought it was interesting getting to know about their mother and what seems to be wanderlust that she has and how it impacted the girls in different ways. Overall this was a pretty great book there was plenty to love about this book and I really enjoyed it. I had a hard time putting it down because I liked it so much. Highly Recommend!
Oh shit.
Rick Savage beached his craft, threw his life vest onto the sand, and
ran after the woman he’d soaked. He’d been so captivated by the
curvaceous blonde that when she’d started to leave, his first
instinct had been to stop her. He’d clearly lost his mind. He knew
better than to come that close to the jetty or to
fishtail near people.
“I’m so
sorry,” he said, jogging over as she stepped off the rocks and onto
the beach.
She turned,
mouth gaping, strands of wet hair stuck to her cheeks, forehead, and
shoulders. The most beautiful green eyes stared back at him in shock
and horror. He felt like a total ass.
“I’m
sorry. I saw you watching me, and—” There was absolutely no
excuse for what he’d done, so he went with the truth, no matter how
bad it sounded. “I wanted to meet you before you took off.”
“I wasn’t
watching you.” Her eyes darted around them, as if someone else
might hear her lying.
He cocked a
brow.
“Okay,
maybe I was for a second. But you were stalking me.”
She swiped at her sundress, which clung to her incredibly sexy body
like a second skin.
He tried not
to leer, but damn…
Forcing his
eyes up, he said, “I wasn’t stalking you—”
Her deadpan
stare stopped him from telling his own lie.
“Okay,
fine,” he said with a laugh. “I was. You caught me. I’m sorry.”
“Does this
usually work for you? Drenching unsuspecting women?” she said with
a hint of annoyance, and a smile, as she shook the water from her
arms. “Not that I’m an expert on being hit on, but it doesn’t
seem like the best way to go about it.”
“I’m sure
you get hit on all the time, but this wasn’t planned. It was a
stupid mistake. It’s actually illegal to go that fast near the
jetty, so you can have me arrested if you’d like. I wasn’t
thinking. I was—”
She arched a
brow, a slight smirk playing across her beautiful face as she tossed
his mannerism right back at him.
He felt
himself smiling. Man, this woman was as sweet as she was spunky.
“What can I say? If you weren’t so hot…”
“So,
it’s my fault?”
She rolled her eyes. “You really do kind of suck at picking up
women.”
The caveman in
him grunted, and he squared his shoulders. “I don’t suck at it.
I’m actually really good at it. A pro. A master. A champion.”
She laughed.
“Sorry, but…” She waved at her wet clothes. “Evidence proves
otherwise.”
And I’m
about to prove that evidence wrong.
“Let me buy you a sweatshirt and something warm to drink at Mac’s
so you don’t freeze.” Mac’s was a walk-up restaurant by the
Wellfleet Pier, a five-minute drive by car. Less by Jet Ski.
Her eyes
rolled over his face, as if she were considering it. He’d never had
anything close to a poker face, which meant she saw his
remorse and his
attraction. At six two, two thirty, he was a big dude, and he kept in
prime shape with running and water sports. He was used to women
ogling him and practically doing cartwheels to get his attention. She
drew in a deep breath, her eyes dropping to his bare chest, and she
bit her plump lower lip. “Sexy” didn’t begin to describe the
dichotomy of sweet and sultry this woman possessed. But she wasn’t
doing cartwheels. In fact, those hungry eyes shifted away from him.
“It’s
okay,” she said. “I was getting ready to leave anyway.”
She was
blowing him off? There was no way he was letting her leave without
doing something to make up for this debacle. Okay, maybe he also
wanted to strip away those wet clothes and warm her up. But that was
beside the point.
“Are you
staying at a cottage on the beach? I can give you a ride on my Jet
Ski.”
“As
tempting as that sounds, since I’ve never been on one, I have my
car.” She pointed to the parking lot with the hand that held her
phone, and her smile faded. “Oh, shoot.
My phone got wet.”
“I
can take care of that.” He took it from her and wiped it on his
shorts. She watched his hands, his biceps, his pecs, his shorts,
with laser focus. His fish wasn’t off the line yet. “It should be
okay now. Want me to put my number in your contacts? In case you
change your mind about that drink?”
That brought a
curious smile. He noticed the cutest dimple beside her mouth when she
smiled. “Does that usually
work?”
“No idea. I
haven’t had to use that line before.”
He stepped
closer, unable to resist brushing a lock of hair that was stuck to
her cheek away from her face so he could see her better. Their eyes
connected, and the temperature spiked. She must have felt it, too,
because she was licking her lips like a hungry tigress. In the next
breath, her eyes darted nervously around the beach. Christ, now she
looked sweet and innocent. How did she do that in the blink of an
eye? Rick was only at the Cape for a few more weeks, working on
renovations at the resort before returning to his real life,
and design-build business, in Washington, DC. The thoughts running
through his mind were not sweet
and innocent. He should let his apology ride, get on his Jet Ski, and
drive away. But she had his rapt attention, and he was unable to walk
away.
“You don’t
have to use my number,” he said. “But you never know. Maybe when
you’re lying in bed tonight, unable to stop thinking about me,
you’ll wish you had it.”
Her cheeks
flushed, and those sparkling green eyes moved over his face and down
his chest again, lingering long enough to send a stroke of heat to
his core.
“Why not?”
she said, surprising the hell out of him. “Go ahead and put your
number in my phone…?”
“Rick.” He
entered his contact information and handed it back, curling his
fingers over hers and holding them for a beat.
Her eyes
flicked up, dark and alluring. “I’m Desiree,” she said a little
breathlessly.
Oh yeah,
you feel it, too.
Melissa Foster is a New
York Times & USA Today bestselling and award-winning author. She writes
sexy and heartwarming contemporary romance and new adult romance with
emotionally compelling characters that stay with you long after you turn the last
page. Melissa’s emotional journeys are lovingly erotic and always family
oriented–perfect beach reads for contemporary romance lovers who enjoy reading
about wealthy heroes and smart, sassy heroines.
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