Beach Kingdom Book Three; Interconnected Standalone
♦BLURB♦
Andrew Prince wakes up before everyone else. He schedules the bar shifts, demands perfection from Long Beach’s lifeguards—most of all himself—and makes sure the family debts are paid. His unfaltering worth ethic might leave him exhausted, but it comes with one advantage. It distracts him from the love he’s been harboring since childhood for the girl next door—who he cannot have.
Jiya Dalal has dreams. To fly a plane, see the world below…and prove irresistible to her best friend, Andrew. But she needs to be a good daughter first, which is becoming an increasingly difficult task, since her parents expect a good marriage and the man she loves with all her heart refuses to pursue the blistering connection between them. Just when she’s beginning to believe Andrew truly doesn’t want her, a moonlight tryst on the beach exposes his true feelings. But an echo from the past kept them apart before…and it’s only growing louder with every stolen kiss…
♦4.5-STAR REVIEW♦
Sink or Swim was a wonderfully delicious taste of a friendship falling into a necessary love. Bailey has always left the tension-filled love stories for the final act of a series and it has worked in her favor yet again. From beginning to end, it had everything I wanted and needed for these two characters who’ve walked circles around each other for two books already and I couldn’t have been happier with the finished product.
There was a great sense of culture in the exploration of Jiya’s character and how it defined her path, both what was expected of her and her path to find the unexpected. Her authenticity as a person of color shone through in her every layer and the heart she had from it and I enjoyed falling into that. The push-pull between her and Andrew was so great and became this pulsing entity surrounding their every scene together and I just simply loved him for her—this sweet, giving person who, in all his essence, was there to support and uplift her. Their connection was just there on the pages organically and it was impossible not to feel it. And for all of those reasons, Sink or Swim was a beautifully sexy book to lose yourself in.
♦SERIES♦
Beach Kingdom Book One; Standalone
Beach Kingdom Book Two; Standalone
♦ABOUT THE AUTHOR♦
Tessa Bailey is originally from Carlsbad, California. The day after high school graduation, she packed her yearbook, ripped jeans and laptop, driving cross-country to New York City in under four days.
Her most valuable life experiences were learned thereafter while waitressing at K-Dees, a Manhattan pub owned by her uncle. Inside those four walls, she met her husband, best friend and discovered the magic of classic rock, managing to put herself through Kingsborough Community College and the English program at Pace University at the same time. Several stunted attempts to enter the work force as a journalist followed, but romance writing continued to demand her attention.
She now lives in Long Island, New York with her husband of eight years and four-year-old daughter. Although she is severely sleep-deprived, she is incredibly happy to be living her dream of writing about people falling in love.
