The Boys of Ocean Beach Books in Order

The Boys of Ocean Beach is one of Lawson's more sun-soaked setups, but it still starts with a girl in trouble. Summer runs to the coast carrying the mess of a terrible school year and too many secrets. In Summer's Kiss, Ocean Beach looks like escape, all sand, water, and local boys who seem much easier to read than the people she left behind.

Of course, it is never that simple.

The core of the series is the relationship between Summer and the four boys who take her in emotionally before they take her in romantically. The beach setting matters because it softens the mood without removing the stakes. Summer is still trying to decide whether she can trust people, whether the past can stay buried, and whether what feels like a summer fling could become something sturdier.

By Summer's Fun, the question is no longer whether these connections are real. It is whether they can survive distance, school, and adulthood. These books have a warmer feel than Lawson's darkest romances, but they still lean into vulnerability, chosen family, and the work of healing.