Blue Jeans and Coffee Beans

The Seaside Saga, Book 1

By: Joanne DeMaio

Narrated by: Steven Barnett

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 Listening 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

©2013 Joanne DeMaio (P)2024 Joanne DeMaio

Finished in 2 days!

This was the first time listening to a book. I wasn’t sure how I felt about it at first, but then I couldn’t stop. I finished listening in two days and can not wait to listen to the next one. I loved all the characters and looking forward to their next adventure.

Such a Great Beach Read

This was my first book to read by Joanne and I was hooked right away and have read every book she’s written. You will love this story!!

Really Great Story

I was skeptical getting into this series - it's not the type of books I normally listen to which is why I decided to try it. I need to break out of my habits and explore new things.

First off the narrator was BAD. Really bad. It was hard to get past it, but once I did I really enjoyed the book. Love all the different characters and it was a very well written story that kept me interested. Excited about the second one.

So many characters, too much jumping around

It was so confusing following the characters. I would have preferred little reminders of who they were.

Heartwarming

This is one of the best feel good books I have listened to in a long while. I highly recommend starting this series. Joanne DeMaio has written a story of friendship, heartache, time lost but most of all a story that tells that you can go home and find love. Narrator Steven Barnett is excellent. Speaking the words with inflection and feeling.

Where it all begins

Getting to know characters who inhabit this lovely beach town- It seems that there are going to be some unexpected turns and twists- and that these initial characters will be right in the middle of all of them.

Great story overall! The

A little mystery with enough clues to figure it out. The cussing was unnecessary! I didn't like the voice for the main Character Maris, it just messed with me; but as a book I loved it!