Dive into the Newest Sweet with Heat Romance!
Secrets at Seaside
Seaside Summers Sweet with Heat, #5
Seaside Summers Sweet with Heat, #5
by Addison Cole
Releasing October 25th 2017
World Literary Press
World Literary Press
The Book Junkie Reads . . . Review of . . . SECRETS AT
SEASIDE (Seaside Summers Sweet with Heat, #5) . . .
There is
nothing like sweet sexy read to get you through a long slow weekend. I have to
say that it did not last the whole weekend like I was intending for it. I sat
down to read and finished the whole thing the first night of the weekend. But I
had a great weekend. The read did allow for me to have a great romance in my
head and something sweet to think about. There was emotional pain, joy,
sadness, happiness. Sweet journey to a reconnection between Tony and Amy. She
went through a lot to get her happy ever after. Sweet molasse romance that has
a few deviations from the norm, but a romance that has been in the making for
many years. Come watch Tony and Amy find each other again and navigate the pain
of the past.
Getting
to know these two characters was super easy. Relating to them both was a joy.
Feeling their pain and sorrow of the lost chance was emotional. Watching their
journey back to each other was the icing on the 7-layre cake.
Seaside Summers Sweet with Heat series:
Read,
Write Love at Seaside – Seaside Summer
Sweet with Heat, #1
Dreaming
at Seaside – Seaside Summer Sweet with
Heat, #2
Hearts
at Seaside – Seaside Summer Sweet with
Heat, #3
Sunset
at Seaside – Seaside Summer Sweet with
Heat, #4
Secrets
at Seaside – Seaside Summer Sweet with
Heat, #5
Nights
at Seaside – Seaside Summer Sweet with
Heat, #6
Seized
by Love at Seaside – Seaside Summer Sweet
with Heat, #7
Blurb
Tony Black is the hottest surfer on the planet. He travels the world throughout the year and spends his summers on Cape Cod with his friends, at the Seaside cottages in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. He’s got his choice of women, but Amy Maples is the one he wants. Fourteen years ago she was his for an entire summer, until a devastating accident changed everything, and what they had seemed like it had never existed—at least for her.
Tony Black is the hottest surfer on the planet. He travels the world throughout the year and spends his summers on Cape Cod with his friends, at the Seaside cottages in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. He’s got his choice of women, but Amy Maples is the one he wants. Fourteen years ago she was his for an entire summer, until a devastating accident changed everything, and what they had seemed like it had never existed—at least for her.
Amy
Maples is as consistent as the day is long. She’s spent summers on Cape Cod
forever, she always does the right thing, and she’s spent years trying to
reclaim the heart of Tony Black, the only man she’s ever loved. She’s back for
a summer of fun with her friends at Seaside, only this year she’s been offered
the opportunity of a lifetime thousands of miles away, and she’s decided to try
one last time to reconnect with Tony. But having a relationship with Tony means
dealing with her past—and dealing with her past may knock her to her knees.
Secrets
at Seaside is the sweet edition of the
steamy romance novel Seaside Secrets by Melissa Foster
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EXCERPT
“I
JUST CAN’T believe that Jamie’s the first one to get married. I mean, Jamie? He
never even wanted to get married.” Amy Maples was three sheets to the wind,
sitting in a bar at the Ryder Resort in Boston. That was okay, she
rationalized, because it was the night before the wedding of her good friends
Jessica Ayers and Jamie Reed, and she and her friends were celebrating.
Besides, now that Jessica and Jamie were getting married and her other three
besties had gotten engaged, Amy was the only single woman of the group. Drunk
was the only way she was going to make it through the weekend.
“But
that was before he met Jessica and she rocked his world.” Jenna leaned across
the table in the dimly lit bar and grabbed Amy’s hand.
Amy
saw Jenna’s lips curve into a smile as she shifted her eyes to Tony Black,
another friend they’d known forever, sitting with his arm around Amy, as per
usual. Jenna raised her brows with a smile, implying something Amy knew wasn’t
true. She rolled her eyes in response. Tony always sat with his arm around her,
and it didn’t mean a thing, no matter how much she wished it did.
Amy
and her besties, Jenna Ward, Bella Abbascia, and Leanna Bray, had grown up
spending summers together at the Seaside community in Wellfleet, Massachusetts,
and to this day they continued to spend their summers there, along with Jamie
and Tony. The six of them had spent eight weeks together every summer for as
long as Amy could remember. Their parents had owned the Seaside cottages, which
they’d passed down to them. Summers were Amy’s favorite time of year. Now that
Amy’s company, Maples Logistical & Conference Consulting, was so successful,
she was able to take eight weeks off while her small staff handled the
workload. Amy had spent seven years building and nurturing the business, and
over the last three years she had turned it into a six-figure venture with
clients varying from accounting to full-on logistical consulting. She could
hardly believe how her life, and her summers, had changed. Just four years ago
she was working part-time during the summers at one of the local restaurants to
keep a modicum of income coming in. She loved summers even more now that she
didn’t have to work. Of course, her love of summers might also have something
to do with being in love with the six-foot-two professional surfer and
motivational speaker currently sitting beside her.
If
only it were reciprocated. She tipped back her glass and took another swig of her
get-over-Tony drink.
“Petey,
can you please get me another drink?” Jenna batted her lashes at her fiancé,
Pete Lacroux. She and Pete had gotten engaged last year. Pete was a boat
craftsman and he also handled the pool maintenance at Seaside. Pete nuzzled
against her neck, and Amy slid her eyes away. Maybe if Sky, Pete’s sister, were
there, she’d feel a little better. Sky wasn’t currently dating anyone either,
but Sky had to work, so Amy was on her own.
Bella
and her fiancé, Caden Grant, were whispering nose to nose, Leanna was sitting
on Kurt’s lap with her forehead touching his, and Jamie and Jessica were
looking at each other like they couldn’t wait to tear each other’s clothes off.
Amy stole a glance at Tony, and her heart did a little dance. Delicious and
painful memories from the summer before college tried to edge into her mind. As
she’d done for the past fourteen years, she pushed them down deep as Tony
leaned in close.
He
smelled delicious, like citrus and spice with an undertone of masculinity and
sophistication. She knew he wore Dolce & Gabbana’s The One. She kept a
bottle of The One beside her bed at home in Boston, and every once in a while,
in the dead of winter or on the cusp of spring, when months stretched like eons
before she’d see Tony again, she’d spray the cologne on her pillow so she could
smell him as she drifted off to sleep. It never smelled quite as good as Tony
himself. Then again, Tony could be covered in sweat after a five-mile run, or
laden with sea salt after a day of surfing, and he’d still smell like heaven on
legs. Since they were just friends, and it looked like there was no chance of
them becoming more, she relied on her fantasies to keep her warm. When she was
alone in bed at night, she held on to the image of Tony wearing only his board
shorts, his broad shoulders and muscular chest glistening wet, muscles primed
from the surf, and those delicious abs blazing a path to his—
Tony
pressed his hand to her shoulder and pulled her against him, bringing her mind
back to the present.
“Time
for ice water?” he asked just above a whisper.
So
much for her fantasy.
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Author Info
Addison Cole is the sweet alter ego
of New York Times and USA Today bestselling
and award-winning author Melissa Foster. She writes humorous and emotional
sweet contemporary romance. Her books do not include explicit sex scenes or
harsh language.
Addison
spends her summers on Cape Cod, where she dreams up wonderful love stories in
her house overlooking Cape Cod Bay.
Visit
Addison on her website or chat with her on social media. Addison enjoys
discussing her books with book clubs and reader groups and welcomes an
invitation to your event.
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