Summer Beach Books in Order
Part ofJan Moran Books in OrderFind the Summer Beach books by Jan Moran in order, with quick summaries, series background, crossover notes, and tips on where to start.
Last updated: July 3, 2026
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Publication Order
14 books
Seabreeze Inn
by Jan Moran
2019
A widowed artist returns to Summer Beach and discovers that the grand old house her late husband bought has become her last chance. Ivy Bay must save the property, face old heartbreak, and decide whether starting over is still possible.
Seabreeze Summer
by Jan Moran
2019
A wildfire fills the Seabreeze Inn with evacuees just as Ivy battles zoning problems and a looming tax sale. Missing valuables, an old crush under her roof, and a documentary crew make one tense summer even messier.
Seabreeze Christmas
by Jan Moran
2020
Vintage decorations, holiday events, and a mysterious guest bring bustle to the Seabreeze Inn. But a priceless discovery and strong opinions from family members test Ivy’s plans, and her future with Bennett, during Christmas season.
Seabreeze Sunset
by Jan Moran
2020
With summer in full swing, Ivy fights to keep the inn open while a lawsuit and family strain close in. Her daughter’s arrival, tension with Bennett, and another clue from the house’s past make life even harder.
Seabreeze Wedding
by Jan Moran
2021
A summer wedding brings new guests and new pressure to the Seabreeze Inn. While Ivy and Shelly plan the big event, the old beach house gives up more traces of the past that complicate an already busy season.
Seabreeze Book Club
by Jan Moran
2022
Ivy and Shelly start a beach book club to help a local shop, but the members bring more complications than expected. A new discovery at the inn stirs fresh questions about the house and the people around it.
Seabreeze Reunion
by Jan Moran
2022
A long-awaited family reunion fills the Seabreeze Inn with barbecues, beach games, and distant relatives. It should be a happy gathering, but old wounds and buried secrets threaten to turn the celebration upside down.
Seabreeze Shores
by Jan Moran
2022
Newly married Ivy is juggling spa week at the Seabreeze Inn while Shelly faces the nerves of impending motherhood. As the old house gives up more Roaring Twenties secrets, gossip and strain ripple through Summer Beach.
Seabreeze Honeymoon
by Jan Moran
2023
Ivy and Bennett finally set out on their delayed honeymoon, only to be rerouted into a trip with unexpected historical clues tied to the inn. Back in Summer Beach, Shelly and Poppy scramble to keep fresh mishaps from spinning out.
Seabreeze Gala
by Jan Moran
2024
Critical repairs put the Seabreeze Inn’s future at risk, and a major fundraising gala may be Ivy’s best hope. But a famous necklace, surprise guests, and old connections turn one elegant night into a test of everything.
Seabreeze Harvest
by Jan Moran
2025
A big harvest celebration should show off the Seabreeze Inn at its best, especially after major renovations. Instead, unexpected surprises threaten scandal, and Ivy and Bennett must keep the night, and the inn’s reputation, from unraveling.
Seabreeze Library
by Jan Moran
2025
A stranger arrives in Summer Beach driving a charming book-filled bus, and everyone wants to know her story. As Ivy and Shelly work on the inn, a renovation uncovers a secret that changes the town’s library fight.
Seabreeze Garden
by Jan Moran
2026
While preparing the inn’s gardens for Spring Fling, Ivy uncovers a hidden plaque linked to a forgotten local woman. With expenses mounting, she has to solve another piece of Summer Beach history while protecting the place she loves.
Seabreeze Homecoming
by Jan Moran
2027
The Summer Beach saga continues with another return to the Seabreeze Inn, where familiar faces, family ties, and seaside surprises never stay quiet for long. Expect more of the warm community drama that keeps readers coming back.
Series background & context
The Summer Beach series is Jan Moran's long-running coastal saga about family, reinvention, and the stubborn magic of an old house by the sea. It starts with sisters Ivy and Shelly Bay, who are trying to turn a grand but troubled beach house into the Seabreeze Inn. Ivy is over forty, grieving, and dealing with the financial shock her late husband left behind. Shelly brings her own energy, style, and uncertainty to the project. Together they are not just fixing up a property. They are trying to remake their lives.
The house is practically a character.
Summer Beach is a fictional small town on the Southern California coast, and Moran gets a lot of mileage out of that setting. There are salty mornings, local festivals, beach cottages, town politics, and a close-knit community that can be both supportive and nosy. Ivy's old crush, Bennett Dylan, is now the town's mayor, which gives the series one of its central romantic threads. Around them are relatives, guests, old friends, business owners, and visitors who keep the town feeling lived in rather than stage-set pretty.
One of the pleasures of the series is how much it mixes everyday innkeeping with small mysteries from the past. The Seabreeze Inn has a history, and that history does not stay buried. Clues tied to the former owner, Amelia Erickson, surface across the books and give the series an ongoing thread beyond romance. Old letters, attic finds, local stories, and surprising connections all feed the sense that the inn holds more than one family's future.
That is why the books can move comfortably from Seabreeze Summer and Seabreeze Sunset into later installments like Seabreeze Wedding, Seabreeze Book Club, Seabreeze Shores, Seabreeze Gala, and Seabreeze Garden without losing momentum. The series grows outward. Weddings, reunions, spa weeks, library campaigns, harvest parties, and garden projects bring in more townspeople and more branches of the Bay family. What began as a story about saving one house gradually becomes a story about sustaining a whole community.
The tone is feel-good, but not sugary. Moran likes second-chance romance, family complications, midlife pivots, and the little pressures of running a business in public view. There is gossip, stress, money trouble, and the occasional romantic wobble, but the books never lose sight of comfort. If you like women's fiction with sisters, old houses, coastal atmosphere, and just enough mystery to keep the pages turning, this series knows exactly what it is doing.
Summer Beach is also the world that links outward to the Coral Cottage books, so readers who enjoy connected series will find plenty to explore. But on its own, the core promise stays simple and satisfying. Come for the inn, stay for the people, and do not be surprised if the town starts to feel familiar after a book or two.
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