Summer Indiscretions

December 1, 2016
A young professional falls in love with her brother's best friend--and discovers her wild side--when she books a vacation using a house-swapping app.To escape her demanding job, Melanie Walker trades her cramped New York City apartment for an airy beach house in Miami, where she can finally ignore her work emails and listen to her heart. There, she runs into Blake, whom her brother has sent to Miami to spy on her and keep her out of trouble. Instead, Melanie takes her would-be chaperone on a whirlwind tour of Florida's nude beaches and tattoo parlors. But will Melanie be able to continue her wild streak once she goes back to the office? In this relaxing scenario, Melanie has plenty of time to fall in love with Blake before the real world intervenes and they have to come clean to Melanie's brother. There's a lot more hanging out and kissing than bantering, and it helps that Blake is a massage therapist who can turn any room into a spa. Melanie's adventure also offers the vicarious thrills of rifling through a stranger's drawers, swimming in the nude, adopting an adorable cat, and picking out a tattoo--all things most people could imagine doing on vacation but probably won't. A vacation in itself, this summer-fling fantasy is more romantic, more fun, and even hotter than the real thing.

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December 1, 2016
Melanie Walker is hyperorganized, loves her job, and is notoriously uptight. So when, on a whim, she uses a website to swap houses with a stranger and jets off to Florida, it's safe to say that this is out of character. Worried about her unusual behavior, her brother asks his best bud and family friend, Blake Wilde, to check on her. On a much-needed vacation from school and his side gig as a masseur, Blake is happy to make sure Mel is all right. But then he sees her frolicking in the surf at the beacha nude beachand he is certain that she is more than merely OK. Indeed, she is sexy as hell. When did that happen? Melanie is mortified when Blake, her long-time crush, catches her topless. But when the embarrassment fades, she's pretty sure he liked what he saw, and with her newfound confidence, she's willing to test the boundaries. Readers will feel the heat in this spicy friend-turned-lover romance, the second, after Missed Connections (2016), in Mataya's Summer Love series.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)