#1 The Seaside Saga

Blue Jeans and Coffee Beans

Joanne DeMaio
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3,418 ratings 368 reviews
New York Times Bestseller Escape to Stony Point, cuff your jeans and walk along the water's edge in this nostalgic story bringing old friends, and their lives, back to the sea. After years of pursuing a denim design career, Maris Carrington never imagined trading her Chicago studio for a New England shingled cottage. But a forgotten home movie tucked inside a dusty attic box leads to an unexpected summer ... One of uncovering family secrets while settling her father's estate, one of inheriting a forlorn German shepherd, one of reconnecting with old friends on a weathered boardwalk, beneath starlit skies on a beach nestled in a crook of the Connecticut coast. Her design career had become a shell, curving around her like the intricate whorls of a conch, shielding her until now. Until fried clam dinners and carousel rides beckon a lost love. But can Maris ever really go back? Can these beach friends ever be who they were to each other all those summers ago? Now one of her circle is dead; another unemployed and struggling in a tenuous marriage; another regretting a fateful decision; while one is missing a mother, ever seeking a connection she longs for. To the backdrop of seaside cottages and a boarded-up beach hangout, to the soundtrack of whispering lagoon grasses and a vintage jukebox, Blue Jeans and Coffee Beans asks if we can really design our own lives, or if our fate lies somewhere in the stars. The Seaside Saga Reading Order: Book 1 - Blue Jeans and Coffee Beans Book 2 - The Denim Blue Sea Book 3 - Beach Blues Book 4 - Beach Breeze Book 5 - The Beach Inn Book 6 - Beach Bliss Book 7 - Castaway Cottage Book 8 - Night Beach Book 9 - Little Beach Bungalow Book 10 - Every Summer Book 11 - Salt Air Secrets Book 12 - Stony Point Summer Book 13 - The Beachgoers Book 14 - Shore Road Book 15 - The Wait Book 16 - The Goodbye Book 17 - The Barlows Book 18 - The Visitor Book 19 - Stairway to the Sea And more Seaside Saga Books
Genres: RomanceFictionChick LitBeach ReadsContemporarySummer ReadsWomens FictionSummerBook ClubDrama
330 Pages

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