Beach-house Stories

A suicidal and an abused ray of sunshine. Things could not get any worse. Blake Beddor hates his life, simply because he's living it. Absolutely no other reason. He just doesn't like to live, and he thinks everything is boring. His life has had some light in it, at least, after he met her. Arabella Laurent. She's a cheery girl who has always had beef with Blake, but like every other person, she has her own problems. Problems she would never dare tell anyone. One beach house brings the two close. One incident brings Arabella to the brink of madness, and Blake to a confused state. He wishes to figure her out, after all, his curiosity about her life is his only reason for living. His fear of eternal pain and suffering is his only reason for living, and as they find out more about each other, they start feeling more comfortable. So comfortable, in fact, that it seems forbidden. Perhaps because it is.

Cordelia has always had two befriends who had stuck by her through thick and thin. Jeremiah Fisher and Steven Conklin, but somehow this summer isn't how she thought it would be. Trust is broken, Secrets are revealed and Love is in the air. Cordelia tires to keep going through her unusual and complicated life but life is full of unexpected twists. The question is what will she do?

★·.·⍣·.·★.· 𝔜𝔬𝔲 𝔠𝔞𝔫'𝔱 𝔠𝔥𝔬𝔬𝔰𝔢 𝔴𝔥𝔦𝔠𝔥 𝔴𝔞𝔶 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔱𝔦𝔡𝔢 𝔭𝔲𝔩𝔩𝔰, 𝔟𝔲𝔱 𝔠𝔞𝔫 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔭𝔦𝔠𝔨 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔣𝔞𝔱𝔢 𝔟𝔢𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔱 𝔭𝔦𝔠𝔨𝔰 𝔶𝔬𝔲? 𝔗𝔥𝔞𝔱'𝔰 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔮𝔲𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫 𝔄𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔩, 𝔖𝔞𝔯𝔞𝔥, 𝔄𝔰𝔥𝔢𝔯, 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔏𝔞𝔶𝔩𝔞 𝔥𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔱𝔬 𝔞𝔫𝔰𝔴𝔢𝔯 𝔟𝔢𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔢 𝔞 𝔴𝔞𝔯 𝔟𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔨𝔰 𝔬𝔲𝔱 𝔟𝔢𝔱𝔴𝔢𝔢𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔊𝔬𝔡𝔰 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔯𝔱𝔞𝔩𝔰. 𝔚𝔦𝔩𝔩 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔶 𝔟𝔢 𝔞𝔟𝔩𝔢 𝔱𝔬 𝔥𝔬𝔩𝔡 𝔬𝔫 𝔱𝔬 𝔢𝔞𝔠𝔥 𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔴𝔥𝔢𝔫 𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯𝔶𝔬𝔫𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔥𝔦𝔡𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤? ★·.·⍣·.·★.·

OCEAN EYES Solange Walton, a sixteen year old girl who vowed to hate summer, not because it was hot but because year after year the same things went down, movie night, 4th of july, family dinners, boringness. Year after year, she'd become more and more annoyed, until this summer when her best-friends brother begins to take interest in her whilst his best-friend confesses the same - summer was no longer repetitive. BOOK ONE OUT OF ? IN THE THIS SUMMER SERIES, OC X JEREMIAH/STEVEN | COMPLETED! started, june 19th ended, july 27th

Kimberly "Kimmy" Stallion has spent every summer at the Redwood family's beach house, growing up alongside brothers Chase and Jake Redwood. They were once inseparable-until growing up changed everything. Now, Kimmy is older, and the Redwood brothers are seeing her differently. Chase, the quiet, complicated older brother she has secretly loved for years, keeps pulling her closer and pushing her away. Jake, charming and carefree, has always been her best friend-but suddenly, he wants something more. One summer, old feelings surface, new secrets are revealed, and Kimmy realizes that falling for one Redwood brother might mean losing the other forever. Because some summers end. And some change everything.

Every summer, Amelia Sinclair returns to the same beach house. The same ocean breeze. The same chaotic family dinners. The same golden sunsets. It was always her favorite season. Until the summer Caleb Hayes arrived. He wasn't part of her plans. He wasn't supposed to matter. But somewhere between late-night walks, lingering glances, and salt-kissed air... everything changed. Because sometimes, all it takes is one summer - and one person - to make your heart forget every other season. Tropes- ☀️ slow burn 🌊 beach house romance 💛 soft male lead 🌅 golden hour love 👀 lingering glances 🏖️ family chaos

❝𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐃 𝐌𝐄 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐓𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐍❞ ⋆ ˚｡⋆୨🌞୧⋆ ˚｡⋆ Once upon a time, 𝐑𝐘𝐀𝐍 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐓𝐒 lost everything. The night her mother died, she lost more than just a parent. She lost her music, her laughter, and every piece of happiness she once carried in her heart. Desperate for a fresh start, Ryan moves from New York to Lakeshore, California, to live with the father she barely knows and the family he's built without her. But no amount of sunshine, therapy sessions, or new beginnings can erase the grief that follows her everywhere she goes. As she struggles with depression and the weight of her mother's death, Ryan finds herself trapped between who she used to be and the person she's becoming. Then there's 𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐘 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 Lakeshore's golden boy. The town sweetheart. Rich, charming, and loved by practically everyone. The moment Brady lays eyes on Ryan, he's completely captivated. Maybe even a little obsessed. There's just something about the mysterious girl with sadness in her eyes and walls built sky-high. Unfortunately for him, Ryan's first impression involves slapping him across the face. Most guys would've walked away. Brady King isn't most guys. As Ryan learns to heal and Brady fights to break through the walls around her heart, they'll discover that sometimes love finds you when you're least prepared for it-and that moving forward doesn't mean forgetting the people you've lost.

It was a summer both of them were dreading, that was until they met each other...

Belly and Conrad have been married for a year. They are in love, but also experiencing married life and learning to live with each other. There are still past issues that need to be dealt with that keep causing problems. Belly and Conrad also realize that they have wounds from others and each other that need to be healed.

When pastry chef Shanae Bennett escapes her toxic engagement and manipulative ex and moves to a beach house she inherited, the last thing she's looking for is love. But her gorgeous, semi-retired commercial photographer neighbor Liam Cole has other plans. He's spent three years healing from a devastating divorce. She's rebuilding herself from the ground up. Neither is looking for forever, until forever walks in next door. Morning coffee. Sunset walks. A storm that changes everything. Just when they've found home in each other, his career pulls him away, and their fragile new love faces its biggest test. Can they weather the distance? Or will fear and doubt wash away what they've built? A swoony, emotional beach romance about second chances, healing hearts, and finding home in the most unexpected place - each other. Spicy / Detailed Explicit Sexual Content But Tasteful Trigger/Content Warnings: References to emotional abuse (past relationship) Panic attacks (handled sensitively) Emotional depth Neighbors To Lovers , Multiracial Love , He Falls First , Insta-Love , Beach Setting , Very Spicy But Tasteful , Career-driven Characters , Swoon-worthy , Emotional , Character Growth , Healing Journey , Friends To Lovers , Second Chance , Romance , Steamy Romance , Copyright 2026 All Rights Reserved

Some summers end when the season changes. Others follow you for years. Sienna thought she'd left that summer exactly where it belonged-in the past. The memories, the people, the moments she stopped allowing herself to think about. Life moved on, and eventually, so did she. At least, that's what she told herself. But the past has a strange way of finding its way back. Sometimes through a familiar name. Sometimes through a memory you weren't ready for. And sometimes through one small decision that suddenly makes everything feel dangerously close again. Because there are some people you never truly forget. Some feelings that time doesn't quite erase. And some summers you don't realise changed everything until you find yourself standing at the edge of them again. **The Summer We Left Behind** is a story of friendship, love, memory, and the complicated question of whether the past should stay exactly where you left it. After all, moving on is easy... until something gives you a reason to look back.

Eren, Armin, and Mikasa share a comfortable house located in a prime spot of their beach town Shiganshina. While Armin grapples with the stresses of his pro surfing career and Mikasa is studying for her degree, Eren's just looking to have some fun with his friends. However, when they meet the new members of a rival surf team, Armin is forced to deal with things he's never had to before. OR A beach-themed slice of life fic with mild romance that follows the trio throughout their post-high school lives.

16 year old Dahlia Turner just moved to Malibu during the summer. She meets Ruby who becomes her new best friend and her friend Miya. After hanging out at the beach they run into Ruby's boyfriend who is best friend with Andrew Dunskie. Andrew and Dahlia hit it right away and slowly fall in love.

Some summers are impossible to forget. For years, summer meant the same beach house, the same sunsets, and the same people. But growing up has a way of changing things. This summer, everything feels different. Old friendships are changing. Feelings that were easier to ignore are becoming impossible to hide. And the person she thought she knew better than anyone suddenly feels like a stranger. Maybe some things were never meant to stay the same. Maybe some summers aren't meant to be forgotten. Maybe this is the summer they finally find their way back to where they left everything behind.

At sixteen, I knew James in pieces. The sound of his laugh from another room. The shirts he wore twice before washing. The exact place he stood on the dock when he thought no one was watching. I loved him quietly enough that no one had to do anything about it. Eight years later, we are back in the same house. He is twenty-seven now. I am twenty-four. And somewhere between the first dinner, the late nights, and the moment his hand closes around my hip in the dark, I realize something I never had to consider at sixteen. James is looking at me too.

The summer I turned seventeen began with a promise I never meant to keep. Every year, our families rented the same weathered beach house overlooking the ocean. The paint peeled a little more each season, the porch creaked beneath our feet, and the wind carried the scent of salt and sunscreen through every open window. It had always felt like home. And every year, Hayden Warner was there. He'd been my best friend for as long as I could remember-the boy who stole the last popsicle, challenged me to races down the shoreline, and knew every version of me before I did. We had spent countless summers laughing until sunrise, building sandcastles we knew the tide would erase, and swearing nothing would ever change. But this summer felt different. Maybe it was the way he smiled when he spotted me stepping out of the car, taller than I remembered, his hair tousled by the sea breeze. Maybe it was because, for the first time, my heart forgot how to beat normally when he looked at me. Or maybe it was because this would be our last summer before life pulled us in different directions. Neither of us knew it yet, but before the leaves turned brown, we'd risk the one friendship we couldn't imagine losing.

She's spent four years trying to forget her brother's best friend, the boy she's loved since they were kids, and the boy she can never forgive for what happened between them one summer. Now, four years later, she returns to her family's beach house expecting to finally put the past behind her. Instead, she finds him there. And this time, she can't escape him. Forced to spend the summer under the same roof as the person she's spent years avoiding, she begins to realize that whatever happened between them four years ago may not have been what she thought and the feelings she buried might not be as buried as she believed.

Palmer St. James has always known one thing: her mom never talks about her side of the family. Growing up, Palmer learned not to ask questions. Whatever happened before she was born was clearly something her mom wanted to leave behind. But when an unexpected invitation arrives from the grandparents she's never met, her family packs their bags for a three-week family reunion in the charming coastal town of Seaside. What Palmer expects is an awkward family vacation. What she gets is a world she never knew existed. Turns out, her mother's family isn't just wealthy-they're old-money, seaside-estate wealthy. The kind of family with generations of traditions, impossible expectations. Palmer quickly learns the heartbreaking truth: her grandparents disowned her mother years ago for falling in love with Palmer's dad, a man they believed wasn't worthy of their family's name. As Palmer tries to make sense of the family she's only heard whispers about, she meets Beckett Montgomery-an NHL superstar and her cousin's best friend. Confident,Tall,charming, and impossible to ignore, Beckett is spending the summer in Seaside and, thanks to a last-minute room assignment, ends up sharing the guest house with Palmer... Between sun-soaked beach days, family secrets, late-night bonfires, and a romance neither of them saw coming, Palmer begins to realize that sometimes the hardest part isn't uncovering the past-it's deciding what kind of future she's brave enough to choose.

A coming of age story about one perfect summer that created one unexpected life. Matilda's mum sends her to the Cornish coast against her will. Little does she know, it will turn into her best summer yet. Living on the beach, making new friends and most importantly meeting the love of her life.

When Rachel hears the news that she is being sent to Blue Waters Academy, a boarding school, she is extremely excited. But first she is going on a vacation to OBX. She gets to go on this adventure with her best friend Alex and her cousin Lauren. The best part is, she meets the love of her life and has the time of her life. Keep reading to find out what happens.