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Discovering Delilah (Harborside Nights, Book Two) Paperback – July 9, 2015

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Discovering Delilah is an edgy, evocative, romantic story of friendship, family, and the courage to love.

Delilah
I’ve never kissed a girl. But I want to…
I lost my parents the day I graduated from college. This summer, I thought I could finally follow my heart, and come out to my closest friends, but the guilt of going against my parents’ beliefs is crushing me, while my feelings for my best friend, Ashley, are making me want and need and crave her.
But I’ve never even kissed a girl.
What if I do everything wrong?
When another girl offers to teach me the ropes, how can I say no?
That one night changes my world and gives me the courage to go after the only girl I really want.

Ashley
Sparks aren’t just flying. They’re igniting…
I promised myself that I’d never date another girl who wasn't out.
But that was before I fell for intoxicatingly sweet and sexy Delilah.
Coming together means risking everything for both of us.
But fear stops Delilah at every turn, and I’m not sure I can risk my heart for someone who’s afraid to show the world she’s mine.

Harborside Nights series
Catching Cassidy (Het)
Discovering Delilah (F/F)
Tempting Tristan (M/M)

Characters from the Love in Bloom series will appear in the Harborside Nights books.

"Catching Cassidy is laugh out loud funny, heartwarming, sexy, and hands down one of my favorite reads so far this year!" -- #1 NYT Bestselling Author of The Bet, Rachel Van Dyken

HARBORSIDE NIGHTS is a sexy, hot, and evocatively real contemporary romance series that follows a group of friends who have known one another for years as "summer" friends, and now come together after college to build their lives. They're tough, edgy, and accepting--most of the time. Discovering Delilah is written in the loving, raw, and emotional voice readers have come to love by New York Times & USA Today bestselling, award-winning author Melissa Foster.
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"Excellently written, this story of love breaks through old barriers of society leading to true acceptance of oneself, respecting individual choices without judgment." Vintage Heart on Discovering Delilah. "Catching Cassidy is laugh out loud funny, heartwarming, sexy, and hands down one of my favorite reads so far this year!" -- #1 NYT Bestselling Author of The Bet - Rachel Van Dyken . "Melissa Foster has proven again that she is a fantastic storyteller, excelling at making seemingly simple stories complex and heartfelt." 5 STARS - Readers Favorites on Catching Cassidy

"Melissa is one of the best in giving us romances that are filled with love. Discovering Delilah was so well done by Melissa Foster, as she has created a wonderful group of diversified characters that will make up this series, heartwarming romance, as well as fabulous family and friendships to surround them with." Barb, The Reading Cafe

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If you enjoy the LOVE IN BLOOM series, you may enjoy my new series, HARBORSIDE NIGHTS..
HARBORSIDE NIGHTS is a sexy, hot, and evocatively real New Adult Romance series that follows a group of friends who have known one another for years as "summer" friends, and now come together after college to build their lives. They're tough, edgy, and accepting--most of the time. Catching Cassidy is written in the loving, raw, and emotional voice readers have come to love by New York Times & USA Today bestselling, award-winning author Melissa Foster. .COMING in 2015 the full Harborside Nights series:
Catching Cassidy (Het)
Discovering Delilah (F/F)
Tempting Tristan (M/M)
Chasing Charley (Het)
Breaking Brandon (M/M)

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ World Literary Press (July 9, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 302 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1941480128
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1941480120
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.76 x 8.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Melissa writes sexy and heartwarming contemporary romance, new adult romance and women's fiction with emotionally compelling characters that stay with you long after you turn the last page. Readers adore Melissa's fun, flirty, and sinfully sexy, award-winning big-family romance collection, LOVE IN BLOOM featuring the Snow Sisters, Bradens, Remingtons, Ryders, Seaside Summers, Bayside Summers, Harborside Nights, Wild Boys and Bad Boys After Dark, Tru Blue and the Whiskeys, the Wickeds, and the Montgomerys. Melissa's emotional journeys are always family oriented. Perfect beach reads for contemporary romance lovers who enjoy reading about loyal, wealthy and blue-collar heroes and smart, sassy, and empowered heroines with complex and relatable issues.

Melissa also writes sweet romance with no harsh language or explicit scenes under the pen name Addison Cole.

Melissa's interests include her family, reading, writing, painting, friends, helping others see the positive side of life, and enjoying beach life on Cape Cod.

Melissa is available to chat with book clubs and welcomes comments and emails from her readers. Visit Melissa on social media or her personal website.

"Melissa Foster is synonymous with sexy, swoony, heartfelt romance!" -NYT Bestseller Lauren Blakely

"With her wonderful characters and resonating emotions, Melissa Foster is a must-read author!" -NYT Bestseller Julie Kenner

"What sets Melissa Foster apart are her compelling characters who you care about... desperately. I dare you to read the first chapter and not be hooked." NYT bestseller, M.J. Rose

"You can always rely on Melissa Foster to deliver a story that's fresh, emotional and entertaining. Make sure you have all night, because once you start you won't want to stop reading. Every book's a winner!" New York Times Bestselling Author Brenda Novak

"Melissa Foster is quickly becoming one of my favorites. Fated For Love was amazing. It kind of reminds me of Jill Shalvis' books and they are my benchmark for contemporary romance awesomeness." --Books Like Breathing

Comments from Melissa:

I grew up in Maryland with my mother, a slew of wonderful brothers, and never a shortage of friends or pets. I am passionate about writing, reading, living healthy, and helping others do the same, and I enjoy just about anything outdoors (and anything chocolate!). I love to chat with readers and book clubs, and welcome your comments and suggestions. Feel free to email me. You can also catch me on Facebook.com/MelissaFosterAuthor.

Thanks for reading!

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Tiger08
5.0 out of 5 stars Another winner for Melissa…a fantastic love story!
Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2015
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I first knew Melissa from the WLC a few years ago. She encouraged me to pursue my writing. I am currently writing an erotic novel that includes two college ladies who discover their love for each other quite by accident. My wife suggested that I read Melissa’s “Discovering Delilah”. I purchased it yesterday and finished it early this morning. I loved it. It is fantastic! There is an appropriate amount of lovemaking for the story to be authentic, but not objectionable to most readers. Melissa skillfully describes Delilah and Ashley’s feelings and what they think as they pursue their love for each other.

Delilah and Ashley had become best friends, and both are so attracted to each other they are about to burst with love and desire. The biggest challenge is that neither knows if the other feels the same. They value their friendship too much to actually make a move. They are dying inside to be in each other’s arms, kissing and making love to each other.

Delilah does not even know if her feelings are real or just in her head. She dated a couple of guys in college, but found the experiences to be rather disgusting. Delilah has never even kissed a girl. Delilah’s parents were killed on the way home from her college graduation. Just before she walked to get her diploma she told them she liked women. The shocked expression on their faces meant to her that these very conservative parents were disgusted with her. A few hours later her parents were dead.

She feels guilty that somehow their deaths are her fault as they had preached to her how wrong same sex love is. She had hidden her feelings since she was an early teen. Every time she thinks of stepping out, she fears their disapproval, disgust and her guilt lurking over her like a exploding thunder cloud.

She attends a grief support group dealing with her parents’ death. One of the ladies there sees inside her dilemma and offers to teach her some of the basics of female lovemaking—for one night only. They don’t do anything too intimate, but Delilah KNOWS for sure now that her feelings are legitimate. She decides that she is going to take the step and tell Ashley how she feels and hope that Ashley reciprocates.

Finally the next night she gets up the courage to tell Ashley of her feelings and hopes that she has been reading the signs that Ashley feels the same. They end up in a dark alley and their love explodes all over the place. No spoilers, but the scene is earth shattering to both of them. These women are falling deeply in love with each other. The big hurdle is that Delilah has a tremendous challenge showing her feelings for Ashley in public. Ashley has sworn (because of a past disastrous relationship) to never be with anyone who will not publicly acknowledge them as a couple. Until she meets Delilah, that is. Delilah is worth it, but both struggle with Delilah’s fears and guilt.

No spoilers. Will Delilah overcome her anger, fear and guilt to publicly embrace Ashley, or will she be unable to overcome her past? I will just say that the ending has a brilliantly wonderful twist that I never even suspected. In one day EVERYTHING changes for ever.

I highly recommend this to lovers of romance, and especially to women who may be struggling with the same issues. True love between two women is a beautiful thing. Don’t miss this great story!
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Cheri
4.0 out of 5 stars Quite Serious, but Lovely
Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2015
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I'm really struggling with my feeling toward the Harborside Nights series. I am so glad Melissa Foster is touching on LGBT topics, I feel it's something too many authors shy away from. So that's not my problem with this series. I believe it's the overall tone of the stories. They are wonderful stories but they really delve into death, grief, acceptance, guilt, etc. I'm not adverse to these things at all. I'm just having a hard time flipping that switch in my brain that assumes a Melissa Foster book is going to be 75% warm fuzzies and 25% angst instead of the other way around.

Please do not pass this book up because of the seriousness. It is a beautiful story of love and self-discovery and acceptance that should be read. Just know there isn't a lot of joking or playfulness in the book. But it's chock-full of love!

One thing that would have improved this story, in my eyes, that has nothing to do with the overall tone...the friends. We were introduced to a whole cast of characters in the first book and we barely see them in this book. I'm sure it's because Delilah had to go through her emotions on her own and learn to be confident on her own, but I still missed them.
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Terisa
5.0 out of 5 stars A beautifully well written F/F romance
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2015
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A beautiful, well written F/F romance

This is the second book in Harborside Nights series which is a new series by Melissa Foster. Like her other books, it's a book about close not families and great friends but unlike her other books, this one is a F/F about first time love and coming out. It's beautifully written and I loved every minute of it.

Delilah Armstrong knew that she liked girls since she was fifteen years old but she hid it from everyone except her twin brother and their best friend. Her parents had strong beliefs and were very liberal so she knew that they wouldn't take it well but on the day that she, her brother and their best friend graduated from college, she told them, they died in an accident just a few hours later. Delilah's now living with the thoughts that she may have had something to do with it. What if they were arguing about her and weren't paying attention? What if she was the reason that they died? So instead of coming out to her friends like she had planned, she's hiding once again only now she is hiding in Harborside while she and her brother try to piece together their lives, manage two homes and a business all while trying to come to grips with their loss. Wyatt is managing much better than she is but Ashley helps. Ashley is new in Harborside and makes her feels things that she's never thought possible but she has no idea if Ashley is straight and she's afraid to ask. Afraid that it will ruin the one thing that she looks forward to every day, spending time with Ashley.

Ashley Carver promised herself that she would never date another girl that wasn't out. After being the dirty little secret to her last girlfriend she told herself that she would never put herself in that type of position again. She fell for Delilah the very first time she saw her but didn’t' know where she stood sexually, but also knowing that if she was a lesbian, she was definitely not out. So instead of doing anything she was happy to remain friends no matter how hard it was to be close to her because being with Delilah was always better than being without her.

This a well written edgy, provocative, female/female story about friendship, finding your way, and first loves. If these types of stories bother you, than I suggest that you just don't read it but if they don't then I will tell you that it's fantastic and you will love it.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Decent
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Decent read that leaves you with a bitter taste at the end. The story is well edited and the mains have chemistry. I wonder if it could have been a littler shorter and still have been the same. The real issue comes towards then end where being gay is described as a choice, a preference and in one sentence compared to getting a piercing or a tattoo. Amy Coney Barrett might be proud, but as a member of the target demographic for this book, I was deeply disappointed.
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patti
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on December 10, 2016
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Loved this book!!! Was not sure about a H/H book but have to say it was nicely done and I could not put it down....I rooted for them and was surprised how much I enjoyed this book!! Don't hesitate....you will love it too!!
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Ali Davies
5.0 out of 5 stars Such a beautiful story!!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 8, 2015
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I was so excited to read Delilah's story, I fell in love with her in Catching Cassidy.
It's hard enough for people to come out and admit they are gay, thanks to society... But when your parents drill it into you that it is wrong, how can you tell them the truth??
I wanted to hug Delilah and tell her everything will be ok..
How do you carry on living with this secret and pretend to be someone that you're not??
After a tragic accident that took her parents lives... Delilah can't get the look of disgust on her parents faces out of her head, after telling them she's gay...
This is her journey to find herself, after so long keeping the real her hidden.. Delilah's twin brother and close friends are there to support her.. But this is one thing she needs to work out for herself..
Melissa has written this beautifully, as I knew she would..My heart broke for Delilah... I felt everything she went through, this is such an emotional journey...
I will warn you to stock up on tissues, this is a definite ugly cry... But it's worth every tear..
Melissa has written this beautifully, as I knew she would...
I was given this ARC by the author for an honest review!!!
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S. Baron
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful story
Reviewed in Australia on July 10, 2015
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I love this series and am so happy it just keeps going. This story deals a lot with guilt and grief and how when losing your parents when you are young can alter your perception of yourself and make you question who your parents were and why they thought the way they did. Personally having lost a parent at a young age I found I needed the tissues handy near the end. Also can't wait for the day the everybody believes that loving someone of the same sex is not wrong.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 3, 2017
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Quite liked this, not sure why.
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Heather
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in Australia on August 5, 2015
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Not as good as the others
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