The Beach at Port Orange

By Joseph Brasher

A coming-of-age summer novel about class, freedom, and the courage to choose your own life

In the summer of 1963, the beach belongs to two different worlds.

Every morning before sunrise, Peter Crawford rakes the shoreline clean of what the tide leaves behind. By noon, families from Club Orange arrive and pretend the sand was always perfect. Peter knows his place - invisible, necessary, and never invited.

Jenny Bealman has lived her whole life inside careful expectations. Perfect posture. Perfect friends. Perfect future. But perfection feels more like a cage than a promise.

When a chance encounter pulls them into conversation, the lines separating their worlds begin to blur.

Late-night walks. Quiet rebellions. A lighthouse no one talks about.

But Port Orange has rules - and people willing to enforce them.

As friendships deepen and tensions rise, Peter and Jenny must decide whether freedom is worth the cost of losing everything they've ever known... and whether love can survive in a town determined to keep them apart.

Set against the warmth of a Florida summer, The Beach at Port Orange is a nostalgic coming-of-age story about identity, courage, family expectations, and the risk of becoming who you really are.

Perfect for readers who love:

emotional slow-burn romance

small-town drama

1960s nostalgia

character-driven literary fiction

Some summers change everything.
This one changes who they are.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GPMYR1ZJ
• ISBN13: 9798249278601
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"