blue jeans and coffee beans by joanne demaio

There’s Maris who doesn’t know what to do with her life. Memories of the summer holidays spent in Stony Point are still fresh in her mind even though it’s been over a decade since her last summer at the Connecticut shore. She returns to her hometown to settle a real estate dispute of her late father. Maris Carrington is a successful denim fashion designer based in Chicago. It will also provide them an opportunity to heal as each one of them deals with a variety of life problems including love, relationships, personal demons, loss, secrets while at the same time seeking salvation and second chances. Just like the decline and the regrowth of the tide, so does life give us a share of issues that changes our lives forever, but the bonds of friendship, seawater, sea air are cleansing, and they cure what ails you.įor a group of old buddies, a summer reunion together in Long Island Sound shores in the town of Stony Point will give them a chance to reinforce their bonds. It’s a story of old friends reuniting at a beach town as they deal with lost love, secrets and personal demons. Reviewed by Kathryn E.The Seaside Saga is a series of Women Fiction/Chick Lit books by USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Joanne DeMaio.

With her captivating new novel, DeMaio’s fan base is sure to blossom. This ultimately uplifting story of intermingling and connecting friendships, lives, and destinies is a perfect beach read–or anytime read. But, as Jason’s dearly departed brother Neil was fond of saying, “The sea air cures what ails you.” In their early thirties now, these high school friends reconvene to sort things out, all the while wondering if the past will ever loosen its grip.

As the friends reunite in this Big Chill-esque story, DeMaio explores the role of fate and destiny, revealing how life can change “in an instant.” And, as her characters interweave their experiences, dreams, and disappointments, she delves into the lure of simpler times and the secrets that may be buried within them. Maris’s childhood friend, Eva, is obsessed by a frustrating search for her birth mother Lauren copes with a tumultuous marriage and shattered dreams while her husband, Kyle, struggles to keep the family afloat. Thirtyish Maris Carrington, a Chicago-based denim clothing designer, arrives in quaint shore town Stony Point to settle her father’s estate and ponder the death of her mother many years ago little does she know that attractive but troubled architect Jason Barlow (who lost his brother Neil as well as part of his leg in a horrific motorcycle accident seven years earlier) will be waiting to pick up their high school summer romance exactly where it left off.

In her second novel, Joanne DeMaio takes readers to the Connecticut shore, where she introduces an intriguing cast of characters, all of whom are searching their pasts for both release and solace (her first, Whole Latte Life, was a 2012 IRDA winner).

Blue jeans and coffee beans by joanne demaio