Secrets at Seaside (Sweet with Heat: Seaside Summers #5) Small town, sweet contemporary romance

Addison Cole

Oct 2017 · Sweet with Heat: Seaside Summers Book 5 · Sold by World Literary Press

About this ebook

Sweet with Heat: Seaside Summers features a group of fun, flirty, and emotional friends who gather each summer at their Cape Cod cottages. They're sassy, flawed, and so easy to relate to, you'll be begging to enter their circle of friends!

Secrets at Seaside is a Sweet with Heat novel and conveys all of the passion you'd expect to find between two people in love without any graphic scenes or harsh language. If you're looking for a spicier romance, pick up the steamy edition, Seaside Secrets, written by New York Times bestselling author Melissa Foster. Addison Cole is Melissa's sweet-romance pen name.

 

In SECRETS at SEASIDE...

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.

 

SWEET WITH HEAT: SEASIDE SUMMERS SERIES

 

Read, Write, Love at Seaside

Dreaming at Seaside

Hearts at Seaside

Sunsets at Seaside

Secrets at Seaside

Nights at Seaside

Seized by Love at Seaside

Embraced at Seaside

Lovers at Seaside

Whispers at Seaside

 

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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.

 

Addison enjoys discussing her books with book clubs and reader groups and welcomes an invitation to your event.

 

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"Addison Cole's stories are the perfect blend of sizzle and sweet. You won't be able to stop reading." - New York Times bestselling author RaeAnne Thayne

 

"Romance, fun, emotions, and happily ever afters that will warm your heart, Addison Cole writes charming and unforgettable stories about real people and love in its most wonderfully moving forms." - New York Times bestselling author Violet Duke

 

"Addison Cole has created characters you'll fall in love with and a seaside world you'll never want to leave." USA Today bestselling author Chris Keniston 

 

"An absolute treat to read and cannot wait for more from Addison Cole." ~ New York Times bestselling author Sawyer Bennett (aka Juliette Poe, on "Read, Write, Love at Seaside")

 

The perfect beach read for fans of big-family, small-town romance. The characters are romantic and loyal, some are wealthy, others are not, and you're guaranteed to enjoy a loving happily ever after.

Ratings and reviews

Secrets at Seaside is the sweeter version of Seaside Secrets. All these books stand-alone though I'd suggest going back and reading the previous books in the series to see how everyone has grown and changed throughout the series. Or read them in order but it is not necessary to understand what has happened. It was great to go back to The Cape and visit with The Seaside Sisters and all their Men. Whether they realize that they are theirs yet or not. This book focused on Amy Maples "The Sweetheart" and Tony Black. Amy owns her own company and lives in Boston, when she is not at The Cape at her Seaside Cottage for the summer. Tony is a Pro-Surfer and motivational speaker. Most all of the "Friends" were passed down the cottages from their parents, the ones that they summered at, while growing up. Now as adults, whoever doesn't live there year-round spends their summers at their Seaside Cottages with their friends. Tony and Amy were both secretly (at least that is what they thought) in Love with each other and thought that the other did not reciprocate those feelings. They had been friends since childhood and went through something significant together as teenagers. That incident truly was a secret from all their Family and Friends and it did not end well. They also both think that the other has gotten over it and moved on emotionally while neither of them really has. A couple years after this, they became friends again and neither brought up the incident and they went on like nothing ever happened between them. Tony very sweetly takes care of Amy and watches over her, as he has since they 1st met (minus the few years they did not see each other and were avoiding each other). Amy is offered a job in another Country, but now they both are having trouble hiding their feelings for each other and would like to try to find out what the other feels. Will their true feelings for each other come out? Or will Amy just leave and take the offered job? Will they talk about about the incident that happened that caused their parting of ways years prior and finally try to deal with it? Grab a copy and come visit The Cape and settle in for a great sweet heartwarming story. I was given an ARC copy from Beck Valley Books through the book tour they are holding for Secrets At Seaside. 5-stars, 5th-in-series, arc, beach, beck-valley-books, contemporary, contemporary-romance, fun-read, read, romance, stand-alone, sweet-romance

This has got to be my favorite from the Seaside series so far. Second chance at 💕 ❤️ 💗 Tony and Amy fell in Love as teenagers but due to circumstances and tragedy fell apart. Tony took care of her through the years, they still loved each other all these years, but were so broken, that they thought they could never be repaired... but they did.

This is definitely one of my favorites from Addison Cole. I always love going back to Seaside to visit our friends. I’ve always enjoyed the friendship that Tony and Amy have shared but now to find out their history and the guilt they both carry around, that was heartbreaking. I was glad that Tony took the initiative to salvage at least their friendship. It was hard to read about their past and how and why Amy pushed Tony away and how she dealt with everything herself. It made me so happy that they took a chance and talked and finally talked about what tore them apart so many years ago. They were both wanting a clean slate so they could be together without the ghosts from their pasts and they definitely accomplished that. I always appreciate not only the girls going to bat for each other but also the guys being there for Tony as well. The way this ended was great, what a perfect way to end this book with many happily ever afters. This is one book I will definitely re-read again and again. Can’t wait for the next book from Addison.

About the author

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.

Addison enjoys discussing her books with book clubs and reader groups and welcomes an invitation to your event.