In My Heart - An Infatuation / A Shooting Star by Joe Cosentino

The supporting cast is headed by Cal’s young husband, Lance Wiley, who is an African American grade school teacher with exotic eyes, a stocky build, and a loving heart.Ĭonnor, the college student assisting Cal, is packed with muscles and hormones. Everyone has a secret at Cozzi Cove, and nothing is what it seems. Since Cozzi Cove is a magical place, the novels are full of humor, tragedy, mysteries, and passions. Cal is honored to follow in his father’s footsteps. Sensing Cal’s sexual orientation as a boy, Cal’s father had turned Cozzi Cove into a gay resort. After Cal’s parents died in an automobile accident, he found his calling: managing Cozzi Cove in the New Jersey shore town named after his great-grandfather. He dabbled as a professional football player then restaurant owner, but neither was a good fit. His Italian and Scottish heritage left him with striking auburn hair and a strong features.

Cal, short for Calvin, is thirty years old, tall, and muscular. This created a gorgeous bay of turquoise water shielded by large rocks in the distance and smaller rocks near the water’s edge. The bungalows on Cozzi Cove are set on a stretch of cove formed when softer rocks were worn away by the sun and salty water faster than the harder rocks surrounding them.

It’s a place I love to visit, and I know you will too. The main beach and boardwalk are only a mile away. Each bungalow is based on my aunt and uncle’s, and is furnished with hand-carved nautical furnishings, and has a stunning view of the bay and lighthouse in the distance. All those places and experiences are in the novels set in a fictitious place I call Cozzi Cove, a gay resort of eight bungalows in a private cove on the Jersey Shore. We swam and made sandcastles at the beach, waded in the bay, played miniature golf, ate salt water taffy and jumped up and down on trampolines until we (literally) saw green, and dined with our parents, aunt, and uncle at our favorite seafood restaurant with a colorful player piano. We were lucky enough to spend our summers in our family’s bungalow at the New Jersey shore. The end of June through the beginning of September was a special time for my sister and me. Why I Wrote the Cozzi Cove beach series, published by NineStar Press This time to talk about his Cozzi Cove beach series! Today I welcome back Joe Cosentino to my blog.

In My Heart - An Infatuation / A Shooting Star by Joe Cosentino