Release Date: June 9, 2026
Green Ferns Publishing House
Categories: Southern fiction, family saga, women’s fiction, later-in-life fiction
This novel is a standalone in the Surfside Beach series
Book Description
Some things don’t break all at once, and some burdens aren’t lighter when they are shared.
Jessie has always been the steady one—the glue holding together a family stitched with love, loss, and second chances. But even glue has its limits, and the cracks are starting to show.
Paul, the man she loves, seems to be slipping further away. He’s fighting battles she can’t see, and for the first time, she isn’t sure if love—no matter how fierce—is enough to hold them together.
Jessie’s daughter Brittney looks like she has it all together. A business. A home. A romance. But as her boyfriend Harrison is forced to build a life somewhere else, she’s left standing still, wondering if fighting for a future is the same thing as moving forward.
Meanwhile, Paul’s daughter Julie is newly pregnant and determined to improve upon the life that launched her. When she uncovers something she never knew about the mother she misses deeply, she must decide what to hold onto and what to release.
In the small, seaside town of Surfside Beach, where family means everything and “practically” counts just as much as blood, the Oakley-Jameson women are learning that the past isn’t as settled as it seems and the future doesn’t wait for anyone to be ready.But if they can’t have perfect…
they’ll have to find a way to hold on to the best of them.