Joanne DeMaio Books In Order

Publication Order of The Beach Cottage Books

Publication Order of The Seaside Saga Books

Publication Order of The Winter Books

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Joanne DeMaio is a USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of contemporary women’s fiction books. 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. 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. Joanne also authored several standalone books with themes of romance, friendship, and family bonds.

All her books are in contemporary women’s fictions and explore themes of families, friendship, love, choices, mothers, and daughters. When not writing, she enjoys spending time taking a walk with her family and sharing a cup of coffee with friends and family.

Blue Jeans and Coffee Beans

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. 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.

We meet Maris Carrington, a successful fashion designer based in Chicago. She begins a journey back to her childhood home in Connecticut to take over the estate of her late father. It has been over one decade since the last summer she spent at the Connecticut shore. She faces a dilemma; whether to marry her attorney boyfriend or start a new live-in Stony Point, Connecticut. While watching old homemade videos, a family secret surfaces and an opportunity to rekindle an old flame keeps her from returning to Chicago.

There is Eva Gallagher, a Stony Point-based realtor. She is married to her childhood, love Matt. The couple has a teenage daughter, Taylor. Unfortunately, a happy life and marriage aren’t enough for Eva. She was adopted as a child and wants to know her biological parents. She is obsessed about finding her birth parents, and her obsession with internet searching of adoption sites causes problems with her family.

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. Unfortunately, his brother died in a motorcycle accident that left Jason with an artificial leg. Consumed by the guilt of his brother’s death, he tries to heal and move on with life and company. Probably a rekindling old love and friendship may be what he needs to purge his inner demons.

Kyle Bradford is a shipbuilder and a part-time cook at a local diner. He’s married to his childhood love Lauren, and the two have two children Evan and Hailey. Even though cooking is his hobby, it’s also his downfall as his unemployment prevents him from maintaining a good marriage. Lauren is not happy about their financial struggles and her for a lost lover. For these friends, a summer stay in Stony Point will strengthen their friendship bonds and provide them a second chance to rebuild their lives in ways they never imagined. Blue Jeans and Coffee Beans is a touching and moving story of dealing with life issues and restoring lost and almost broken friendships. In her The Denim Blue Sea, the second book in Seaside Saga series, Joanne DeMaio weaves a poignant story narrated in third person alternating between five characters. It’s set in present but with a series of flashbacks.

Overall, Blue Jeans and Coffee Beans is a complex tale of interweaving friendships blended with real-life challenges that’s both heartbreaking and inspiring. It’s a compelling story that will leave you with a spectrum of emotions and at the same time soothing your soul.

Whole Latte Life

Sara and Rachel have a spirited friendship right from childhood. They have planned a girl’s weekend trip in New York City for their 40th birthday celebration. However, it’s revealed that Sarah is going through tough times and the walls are fast closing in; but she doesn’t disclose her feelings to Rachel and instead uses the weekend as a perfect moment to think and decide the way forward for her future.

Sara and her mother were planning on starting an antique shop. Their plan never happened because her mom died, and then a third child came along. Like all mothers with children who’ve put their dreams to hold, she flees from her husband and thinking of her carefree days traveling from one country to another and her old love in Italy and talking with her dead mother. What’s the worst that could happen? She leaves her friend Rachel at a restaurant with only a note. She wants some clarity and balance because her life is so crowded to a point she cannot think.

On the other hand, Rachel wants to help her friend find focus and purpose in her life. She searches everywhere and meets a cop who transforms her life. Her husband passed away two years ago, with a daughter in university, and dreams of spending her time in a seaside cottage painting. But her friendship with Sarah is significant to him, and soon she finds herself caught in between honoring Sara’s request and informing her family.

From a historic town in Connecticut, Manhattan to a cottage at Long Island, to a mysterious house in New England, Whole Latte Life is a story about second chances, redemption, taking chances, loss, choices, forgiveness, romance, secrets, and unconditional love. Joanne Demaio has crafted an intriguing story that drives the characters towards answers to life questions as they seek peace and solace. The story is beautifully written about the connections of friends, family, and relationships. Sometimes the healing for broken hearts can be found on the sandy shores with a cooling sea breeze to cuddle and soothe your soul.

7 Responses to “Joanne DeMaio”

1. Georgianna DeMaris: 9 months ago

   I just purchased a couple of your books and I’m looking forward to reading them

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2. Katie White: 1 year ago

   Do you only have two stand alone books. Are the rest of your books series.

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   • Graeme: 1 year ago

     That is correct.

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3. Carol Lynch: 1 year ago

   Just finished the first two books in the Seaside Saga and can’t wait to start reading the next ones! I finished these 2 books in 3 days – could not stop – loved the story and not having to skip over so many pages because of the descriptive sex. I love your writing and will keep reading until you stop writing! Your books are a breath of fresh air!
   Blessings to you,
   Carol Lynch

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4. Joann: 2 years ago

   I just finished reading beach series.. waiting for book 15 to come out. Is the other series a set to read in order also..if so which one starts the series

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   • Graeme: 2 years ago

     Hi Joann – thanks for bringing that to our attention. That looks like one of those series that initially it was all standalone, but the author has now grouped them within the same series. At a quick glance all of the characters appear different. Anyway they are all in the same series listed above now. The first novel is Snowflakes and Coffee Cakes. And just writing that makes me want to eat a coffee cake 🙂

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5. Joellyn Nevins: 3 years ago

   Just found your series. Unfortunately, reading denim blue before Blue Jeans and Coffee Beans.
   Love them so far!!

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