Bayside Heat (Bayside Summers, #3)
Melissa Foster
Bayside Heat is a USA Today Bestseller 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, 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? All BAYSIDE SUMMERS books can be read as standalone novels or as part of the series: Bayside Desires Bayside Passions Bayside Heat Bayside Escape *** 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.
Publication Year: 2018
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If you, like me, have been reading this series from the beginning, you’ve been watching Serena and Drake deny their feelings for a while. This book uses one of my very favorite tropes, friends to lovers. Even seeing the chemistry between these two in the other stories, I was really thinking it would go the direction of Serena having liked Drake since they were kids (because she did) and Drake just now realizing his feeling for Serena. I was pleasantly surprised when I realized that Drake was right on board from years ago but had very good reasons to keep his distance.
We’ve been told, more than once, that Serena’s job at the resort owned by Drake and his brother was just temporary. She was just helping out while they got up and rolling. But years later, it comes as a shock to all of her friends when she is offered, and accepts, a job in Boston. Their day-to-day lives are all so intertwined and flow so easily, everyone sort of pushed it to the back of their minds that Serena always wanted to work for a prestigious design firm. Her wishes are finally coming true and her friends, especially Drake, are not going to hold her back.
Drake has held his feeling in check when it comes to Serena because he always wanted her to follow her dreams. He’s watched her work hard and pull herself up all on her own over the years. Now that the dream has become a reality he has to face the fact that he may have to give her up completely. Luckily, with both of their emotions running high with her impending departure, the chemistry can no longer be denied. Serena and Drake finally give in to all of their feelings. But she still has to leave.
Watching these two navigate a long distance relationship after finally becoming a couple is beautiful and heart wrenching. I really enjoyed seeing Serena’s real personality come out at her new job and the way she didn’t back down from her beliefs, even if it wasn’t always the correct career boosting move. She has such a strong moral compass and is very compassionate to those around her, she can’t help but win over her new coworkers…even if her boss isn’t really thrilled with her bullheadedness.
See my full review at https://allingoodtimeblog.wordpress.com/2018/09/07/bayside-heat-book-review/
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