Lovers at Heart by Melissa Foster – a Review
Lovers at Heart
Love in Bloom series – Book #4
by Melissa Foster
Release Date: October 26, 2013
Links to order Lovers at Heart: Amazon / Barnes & Noble / Kobo / The Book Depository
Description:
Lovers at Heart is a steamy contemporary romance with alpha male heroes and sexy, empowered women. They’re flawed, funny, passionate, and very relatable for readers who enjoy adult romance, contemporary romance, and women’s fiction. Enjoy Lovers at Heart as a stand-alone novel or for more enjoyment, read the entire Love and Bloom series (nine full-length novels featuring the Snow Sisters and the Bradens).
Handsome, wealthy resort owner Treat Braden is used to getting what he wants. When Max Armstrong walked into his life six months earlier, he saw right through the efficient and capable façade she wore like a shield, to the sweet, sensual woman who lay beneath. She sparked an unfamiliar desire in him for more than a one-night stand, leaving his heart reeling and his blood boiling. But one mistake caused her to turn away, and now, after six months of longing for the one woman he cannot have, he’s going home to try to forget her all together.
Max Armstrong has a successful career, a comfortable lifestyle, and she’s never needed a man to help her find her way–until Treat Braden caught her attention at a wedding in Nassau, causing a surge of emotions too reminiscent of the painful past she’d spent years trying to forget. Max will do anything to avoid reliving that pain–including forgoing her toe-curling, heart-pounding desire for Treat.
When a chance encounter turns into a night of intense passion, Treat realizes that the mistake he made six months earlier may cause him to lose Max completely. He will do everything within his power to win her heart forever–and Max is forced to face her hurtful past head on for the man she cannot help but love.
Review:
Lovers at Heart is the 4th book in Melissa Foster’s Love in Bloom series. This is however the 1st book for the Braden’s, and after finishing this book, I cannot wait to read more of the rest of this family. When we last left off in Sisters in White, we had met Treat Braden, whom we knew from that book that Max Armstrong would be the woman who would change his life.
Treat is a wealthy owner of various resorts, dedicated to his work, and his family. He met Max at the wedding in Sisters in White, and now 6 months later, he cannot get her out of his head. He knows he made a mistake back then, when he jumped to the wrong conclusion, and hurt Max, but he wants to find her and make amends. Max, who works for Chaz, our hero in book 2, is a strong independent woman in the work world, but very sensitive in private. As destined, the two accidentally run into each other at a film festival in Colorado, where both happen to live.
The sexual chemistry between them is so hot and intense; with both unable to resist each other. Treat knows right away that Max is the woman he has been waiting for all his life, though he is afraid of commitment; especially seeing how his father fell apart at the death of his wife, Treat’s mother. Max herself has her own secret issues of her past that make her also afraid to trust any relationship. What follows is a beautiful, passionate, tense, and very steamy story of two people who fall very much in love with each other. Though throughout the story, there were a number times their issues would separate them again, with Max constantly afraid of total commitment, though she knew she loved Treat. We learn that years before, Max has a terrible experience with a relationship that left her scarred and frightened to do it again. She finally tells Treat the truth, and he is so wonderful and careful with her.
Just when you thought they would finally commit, Max does another silly thing that made us want to smack her, and Treat steps back to give her freedom. It is the wonderful Braden family who are so great, that help Treat realize he has to fight for Max. On the other side, I loved the friendship between Max and Kaylie, our awesome Snow sister from the earlier books. Just watching Kaylie teach Max how to turn on any man was so much fun.
Melissa Foster does it again, with another wonderful book in this series, and this one is even steamier then the last one. But of course, when you have a hot couple like Max and Treat, you expect nothing more. If you want a beautiful romance, with hot steamy sex scenes, a sexy couple; and a family oriented background; look no further then Lovers at Heart. I am loving this series by Melissa Foster.
Reviewed by Barb
Copy provided by Author
LOVE IN BLOOM series order:
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SNOW SISTERS
Sisters in Love
Sisters in Bloom
Sisters in White
THE BRADENS
Lovers at Heart
Destined for Love
Friendship on Fire
Sea of Love
Bursting with Love
Hearts at Play
