Read, Write, Love at Seaside (Free romance, Feel-good, HEA, Sweet with Heat: Seaside Summers #1) Small town, sweet contemporary romance

Addison Cole

Jun 2017 · 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!

Read, Write, Love 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, Read, Write, Love, written by New York Times bestselling author Melissa Foster. Addison Cole is Melissa's sweet-romance pen name.

In READ, WRITE, LOVE at SEASIDE...

Bestselling author Kurt Remington lives to write. He spends twelve hours a day in front of his computer, rarely leaving the seclusion of his beach-front property, where he's come to finish his latest thriller that is, until free-spirited Leanna Bray nearly drowns in the ocean trying to save her dog. Kurt's best-laid plans are shot when he comes to their rescue. Kurt's as irritated as he is intrigued by the sexy, hot mess of a woman who lives life on a whim, forgets everything, and doesn't even know the definition of the word organized.

Leanna's come to the Cape hoping to find a fulfilling career in the jam-making business, and until she figures out her own life, a man is not on the menu. But Leanna can't get the six-two, deliciously muscled and tragically neat Kurt out of her mind. She tells herself she's just stopping by to say thank you, but the heart-warming afternoon sparks an emotional and unexpectedly sweet ride as Kurt and Leanna test the powers of Chemistry 101: Opposites Attract.

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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"Loved every sweet word of this story. Loved how the relationship developed between Leanna and Kurt in such a genuine way, it made me so invested in their happily ever after. An absolute treat to read and cannot wait for more from Addison Cole." - New York Times bestselling author Sawyer Bennett (aka Juliette Poe)

"Read, Write, Love at Seaside is filled with enigmatic characters, sweetly charged chemistry, and utterly romantic storytelling at its finest." - 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

"Grab your sunglasses and prepare to settle in. READ, WRITE, LOVE at SEASIDE is the perfect beach escape, with fabulous characters, a beautiful setting and a sweet, tender story." - USA Today bestselling author RaeAnne Thayne

"Cole's writing is smart, sweet and just the right amount of sexy, creating the perfect escape for the summer!" - Under the Covers Book Blog

"Read, Write, Love at Seaside by Addison Cole is a perfect beach read with wholesome chemistry without any explicit intimate scenes, heartwarming romance, many memorable moments, a crisp story that takes us on a rich emotional journey." - Nj Kinny's World of Books & Stuff

"A sweet and fun romance about opposites who find their way to each other and fall in love while helping the other to gain a more balanced life and support from the other." - Books are Love

"Sweet, entertaining and charming love story. Read, Write, Love at Seaside is a well-written book that will having keep you entertained with two people that are opposite yet perfect for each other." - Between the Coverz

"Finally, the sweet, sweep-me-off-my-feet romance has arrived with the debut novel of, "Read, Write, Love at Seaside by the author, Addison Cole. [...] I cannot express enough how wonderful it is to have a romance that was wholesome while still maintaining massive eye candy and an equally satisfying plot." - She Reads Too Much Romance

"Addison Cole has crafted a perfectly sweet and steamy romance without there being any graphic, intense romantic scenes. [...] Read, Write, Love at Seaside was perfect for me!" - Read, Write, Design Blog

"A sweet heartwarming read that is the perfect escapism book with the perfect amount of heat without being explicit!" - Lucia's Review

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

Absolutely loved this book. I am a huge Melissa Foster fan but was a bit on edge to see if she could take on a new nom de plume and still hit it out of the park. Addison Cole is going to become one of my favorite authors! Kurt and Leanna are so relate-able. I can picture myself in either character - the workaholic or the free spirit. I think I was drawn to the two of them because this is what my current relationship is like. I am the free spirit and he is the workaholic. We manage to make it work and Addison Cole found a way for Kurt and Leanna to make it work.

This is the absolutely perfect beach/summer read (even more so since it is set in the Cape ... on the Cape?  Whatever - there is sand involved.)  Cole brings the right amount of fun in the sun, humor with heart, and characters that capture your attention.   Kurt is fantastic from the beginning.  He's a little OCD and likes to be alone while he writes.  And pretty much all he does is write, but when happy-go-lucky Leanna comes crashing into his life she quickly stirs things up.  Like the awesome guy he is, though, he takes it in stride - there is no angst or drama over her bubbliness to his stoicism.  Instead she helps to bring him out of his shell, reminding him that there is more to life than his books, and that he needs to get out to enjoy it.   And he complements her as well.  She's been drifting for years but she seems to have found a calling in her jam business.  Unfortunately she doesn't have a clue what it means to really go after this as a career, but with some help from her friends and the support that Kurt gives her she starts to figure things out.   This is a super sweet romance, with just enough heat to keep your attention but without ever getting too explicit.  (I haven't read this series by Foster, but I'm definitely curious if Kurt was a little less refined in the original  :) )  The story is very smooth and moves along at a good pace - very realistic with Kurt and Leanna getting to know each other, figuring out whether they fit together, and (of course) falling in love.  There's a ton of friends introduced here so it looks like we'll have plenty of stories to keep us entertained ... and I'm looking forward to every one! *** I voluntarily read a Review Copy of this book. All opinions stated are solely my own and no one else’s. ***

Read, Write, Love at Seaside was a sweet and fun opposites attract romance story. This one revolved around a free-spirited and not so tidy Leanna with her tag-along pooch Pepper. (She is one of 4 Best Girlfriends - The Seaside Girls, who summers at The Cape, selling her Jellies and Jams at the flea market and living wherever she feels like for the rest of the year. This year though she decides to try and expand her business and will end up living at The Cape year round if local businesses decide to carry her product.) The budding romance with an organized and very tidy Kurt (An Author who comes to summer at The Cape to relax and write, who lives in New York for the rest of the year.) Join in on their summer romance to find out if they end up staying together or if it ends as summer always does. If they stay together who gives up their dreams or regular lifestyle? Where they end up living for the rest of the year, and whether it is together or apart? This is a mostly clean but suggestive romance. The sex pretty much ends as the door closes, besides a few mild foreplay sessions. I'd say in my opinion, it is a 1.5 - 2 on a heat scale of 5. 1st-in-series, 4-stars, arc, contemporary-romance, hea, romance, small-town I was given an ARC copy from Beck Valley Book Tours to voluntarily Read & Review, If I chose to do so. I was not compensated for this review, nor was I required to write a positive review. These are my thoughts and opinions on this book.

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.