Beach Reads

Last Updated: May 25, 2024

This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune

This Summer Will Be Different
by Carley Fortune

Lucy is the tourist vacationing at a beach house on Prince Edward Island. Felix is the local who shows her a very good time. The only problem: Lucy doesn’t know he’s her best friend’s younger brother. Lucy and Felix’s chemistry is unreal, but the list of reasons why they need to stay away from each other is long, and they vow to never repeat that electric night again. It’s easier said than done.

Summers at the Saint by Mary Kay Andrews

Summers at the Saint
by Mary Kay Andrews

Everyone refers to the St. Cecelia as “the Saint.” If you grew up coming here, you were “a Saint.” If you came from the wrong side of the river, you were “an Ain’t.” Traci Eddings was one of those outsiders whose family wasn’t rich enough or connected enough to vacation here. But she could work here. One fateful summer she did, and married the boss’s son. Now, she’s the widowed owner of the hotel, determined to see it return to its glory days, even as staff shortages and financial troubles threaten to ruin it.

Tourist Season by Brenda Novak

Tourist Season
by Brenda Novak

Ismay Chalmers, trapped alone in her fiancé’s family ‘cottage’ as a hurricane bears down on Mariners Island, prepares for the storm and discovers some disturbing items hidden in a closet that have her questioning everything she knows about the seemingly perfect Windsor family–especially her fiancé.

Just For the Summer by Abby Jimenez

Just for the Summer
by Abby Jimenez

Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it’s now all over the internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soul mate the second they break up. When a woman slides into his DMs with the same problem, they come up with a plan: They’ll date each other and break up. Their curses will cancel each other’s out, and they’ll both go on to find the love of their lives. It’s a bonkers idea… and it just might work.

The Fury by Alex Michaelides

The Fury
by Alex Michaelides

Spending Easter with Lana Farrar, a reclusive ex-movie star and one of the most famous women in the world, on her idyllic private Greek island, her guests, concealing hatred and desire for revenge, become trapped when the night ends in violence and murder.

The Celebrants by Steven Rowley

The Celebrants
by Steven Rowley

Reuniting in Big Sur to honor a decades-old pact to throw each other living “funerals,” celebrations to remind themselves life is worth living–and living well–five friends find their pact upended when one of them reveals a shocking secret.