

Consumed by the guilt of his brother’s death, he tries to heal and move on with life and company. Unfortunately, his brother died in a motorcycle accident that left Jason with an artificial leg. Then we have Jason Barlow an architect and the owner of Barlow Architecture, a design and construction startup specializing in beach cottage renovations he started with his brother Neil. She is obsessed about finding her birth parents, and her obsession with internet searching of adoption sites causes problems with her family. She was adopted as a child and wants to know her biological parents. Unfortunately, a happy life and marriage aren’t enough for Eva. The couple has a teenage daughter, Taylor. She is married to her childhood, love Matt. There is Eva Gallagher, a Stony Point-based realtor. While watching old homemade videos, a family secret surfaces and an opportunity to rekindle an old flame keeps her from returning to Chicago. She faces a dilemma whether to marry her attorney boyfriend or start a new live-in Stony Point, Connecticut. It has been over one decade since the last summer she spent at the Connecticut shore.

She begins a journey back to her childhood home in Connecticut to take over the estate of her late father.

We meet Maris Carrington, a successful fashion designer based in Chicago. For a group of old college friends, a reunion together on Long Island Sound in Connecticut will serve them a chance to restore and strengthen their friendship bond and give them an opportunity to heal as they deal with a series of life issues including relationships, love, personal demons, secrets, loss while trying to redeem themselves and seek second chances. Just like the eddies of the tide, life serves us with a share of issues and changes, but friendship bonds, seawater, and sea air, are cleansing, and they cure what ails you. When not writing, she enjoys spending time taking a walk with her family and sharing a cup of coffee with friends and family.

Joanne also authored several standalone books with themes of romance, friendship, and family bonds.Īll her books are in contemporary women’s fictions and explore themes of families, friendship, love, choices, mothers, and daughters. While sorting through their twisted adult lives, long-forgotten loves and lost friendships surfaces and entwine forever changing the course of these great friends’ lives in unimaginable ways. Her New York Times Bestseller novel Blue Jeans and Coffee Beans tells the story of a group of friends who arrange a meet up at their favorite summer beach. Joanne DeMaio is a USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of contemporary women’s fiction books.
