{"product_id":"blue-jeans-and-coffee-beans-the-seaside-saga","title":"Blue Jeans and Coffee Beans (The Seaside Saga)","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew York Times Bestseller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEscape 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Seaside Saga Reading Order:\u003cbr\u003eBook 1 - Blue Jeans and Coffee Beans\u003cbr\u003eBook 2 - The Denim Blue Sea\u003cbr\u003eBook 3 - Beach Blues\u003cbr\u003eBook 4 - Beach Breeze\u003cbr\u003eBook 5 - The Beach Inn\u003cbr\u003eBook 6 - Beach Bliss\u003cbr\u003eBook 7 - Castaway Cottage\u003cbr\u003eBook 8 - Night Beach\u003cbr\u003eBook 9 - Little Beach Bungalow\u003cbr\u003eBook 10 - Every Summer\u003cbr\u003eBook 11 - Salt Air Secrets\u003cbr\u003eBook 12 - Stony Point Summer\u003cbr\u003eBook 13 - The Beachgoers\u003cbr\u003eBook 14 - Shore Road\u003cbr\u003eBook 15 - The Wait\u003cbr\u003eBook 16 - The Goodbye\u003cbr\u003eBook 17 - The Barlows\u003cbr\u003eBook 18 - The Visitor\u003cbr\u003eBook 19 - Stairway to the Sea\u003cbr\u003eAnd more Seaside Saga Books\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Novel Tea Book Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53369443549483,"sku":"9781479262779","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0728\/0689\/1819\/files\/9781479262779.jpg?v=1777644660","url":"https:\/\/www.novelteabookshop.com\/products\/blue-jeans-and-coffee-beans-the-seaside-saga","provider":"Novel Tea Book Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}