Beach Squad Series

I just want to drink hot chocolate all day, but that guy with all the muscles and the killer tan is super distracting.     As a new business owner selling gourmet hot chocolate to tourists and locals alike in our little beach town, I don't allow for distractions. My plans are set and they don't include a man.   But things heat up faster than I can handle when a bronzed lifeguard pursues me in the most delicious of ways. Mix in a stalker determined to throw me off my game and an ass-kicking Squad of friends…well, then you have a comical situation. If it was happening to someone else.   I may appear to be a damsel in distress, but I can save my own self, thank you very much. And I might just keep that hot lifeguard as the whipped cream on top of my sweet dreams.     Sweet Dreams is the first book in a series of small town romance novels with a splash of humor. If you like strong, sassy heroines, witty banter, and happily ever afters set at the beach, then you'll love Marika Ray's Beach Squad series.

Any chemistry teacher will tell you opposites attract. Unfortunately, I teach English.   I spend my days a buttoned up high school teacher and spend my nights with my book boyfriends, not daring to think I could procure one in real life. It's precise, it's controlled….it's boring as hell.     The tide shifts and I find myself with a hippie lifeguard who provokes me as much as he turns me on, a Senior class in upheaval, a crazy Beach Squad that wants to befriend me, a wild twin sister back in my business, and a public challenge to expose my long-held secret for the greater good.     Do I deduce this chaos is all serendipitous, meant to thrust me into my true place in the world? Ultimately, I have to decide if I can kick off my shoes, dig my toes in the sand, and trust in love again.     Barefoot Chaos is the third book in a series of small town romance novels with a splash of humor. If you like strong, sassy heroines, witty banter, and happily ever afters set at the beach, then you'll love Marika Ray's Beach Squad series.

When you've lived your whole life on the defense, true love isn't something you believe in anymore.   Dean   This girl should have a warning label: comes with baggage. But hell, we all have baggage and mine is saying I need to save Brinley. She pushes me away at every opportunity and then drops the most ridiculous jokes that catch me off guard. She's so much more than a beautiful face. I want to show her how a real man treats the woman he loves. If she lets me...   Brinley   I had a nightmare of a childhood surviving the abuse of my father. Through it all I've had one goal: become a professional beach volleyball player. My life plan was going so well until I met Dean, a gorgeous lifeguard determined to save me from myself. And don't get me started on the crazy Beach Squad that tries to befriend me and pull me out of my shell.   When everything I thought I knew about my past changes, can I find lasting love with Dean while still achieving my pro career?     Love on the Defense was formerly titled Beach B!tch. Love on the Defense is the second book in a series of small town romance novels with a splash of humor. If you like strong, sassy heroines, witty banter, and happily ever afters set at the beach, then you'll love Marika Ray's Beach Squad series.

I may be worth billions, but I'm ready to get down and dirty with the local lifeguard.   Sage I'm a free spirit trapped in an "old money" conservative family. Right before my thirtieth birthday, my father, sick of my bohemian lifestyle, gives me an ultimatum: tear down The Surf Shack in Huntington Beach and build a five-star restaurant. Or lose my trust fund AND his multi-billion dollar company.   Jax As the owner of The Surf Shack, I've promised to keep my late father's shop running while juggling my full-time job as a beach lifeguard. Even if the hot little thing in a business suit tempts me with her conflicting personalities. Is she a business shark in a designer suit? Or a Mother Earth loving hippie who wants to get dirty with me?   Ultimately, we have to decide what's worth fighting for: love or fortune.       Beach Babe Billionaire is the fourth book in a series of small town romance novels with a splash of humor from a USA Today Bestselling author. If you like strong, sassy heroines, witty banter, and happily ever afters set at the beach, then you'll love Marika Ray's Beach Squad series.

If I'd known she was my new employee I never would have kissed her when I found her naked in the locker room.   Cain I do the only thing I can do without being fired or sued: I decide to stay far, far away and pretend it didn't happen. Trouble is, all the whiskey and women in the world can't burn that memory out of my brain.   She's everything I'm not: a happy, non-swearing, ray of sunshine. She's positively annoying, but I can't deny the burning attraction that sparks every time we're near each other.   Sunny He is so annoying. Don't even get me started on how stupid hot he is on that motorcycle. Or how he follows me home in the dark to make sure I get there safe. As far as intentions go, his are clear as mud.   When a statewide tsunami warning puts our crew of lifeguards in a life or death emergency, Cain and I have to set our feelings aside to work together. Crazy enough, the tsunami and tenuous job situation are the least of my worries when I start digging around in his dark past.       Brighter Than the Boss is the fifth book in a series of small town romance novels with a splash of humor by a USA Today Bestsellling author. If you like strong, sassy heroines, witty banter, and happily ever afters set at the beach, then you'll love Marika Ray's Beach Squad series.

When Christmas Eve leads to disaster of epic proportions, fate should owe you a do-over.   Shasta A chance encounter with a Harley-riding Santa and a bulging sack of goodies on the worst day of the year turns my world upside down. Too bad I'm on a man diet, especially from silver foxes who give me heart palpitations and hot flashes. I cling to willpower like a starving woman front and center at a buffet and say no to each of his swoon-worthy attempts to rekindle the romance I walked away from decades before.      Duke She's got so much baggage I'm tripping over it in my efforts to show her how great we could still be together. When she makes an offer most men would jump at, I almost accept. But everything I've ever wanted has slipped through my fingers and I won't let us be another casualty. Just one question: how do you woo a woman who has sworn off all men forever?       Christmas Eve Do-Over is a second-chance romance novella for the over-40 crowd in the Beach Squad series, written by a USA Today Bestselling author. Read as a stand-alone or at the end of the series. Warning: reading this novella will give you a '90s song mind virus and make you believe in second chances no matter how badly you've been burned.

I should have known better than to flirt with a hot cop.     Jack In my world as a police officer, things were either black or white. Right or wrong. Then Bailey arrived, challenging all my principles. She had a mouth on her, the level of sass matching the exaggerated swing of her hips. I couldn't get her out of my head, even knowing she wasn't right for me. I tried to stay away, I really did. But once I had a taste, I kept coming back for more. Something didn't add up though, and I would figure it out even if it ultimately meant we couldn't be together.      Bailey The only thing sexier than his dimple was the set of handcuffs the hottie detective threatened to use on me. If only he'd give me a chance to show him I was more than the tough-girl exterior I'd carefully crafted over the years. Oh yeah, and if I wasn't engaged in criminal activity that would land me in handcuffs...and not in a sexy way. More like an orange jumpsuit way, and I can tell you now, no way in hell would I be caught dead in an ugly jumpsuit.    No matter which way this thing ends, I'll be in handcuffs. The question is, will Jack join me in the grey area? Or will I have to do the impossible and admit I was wrong?     Handcuffed Hussy is a companion novella in a series of small town romance novels with more than a splash of humor from a USA Today Bestselling author. If you like strong, sassy heroines, witty banter, and happily ever afters set at the beach, then you'll love Marika Ray's Beach Squad series.