The Last Summer at Bellhaven
A tender, slow-burn coastal novel about female friendship, grief, small-town secrets, a second chance at love, family inheritance, and the truth that won't stay buriedBy Jessica Hayes
Length7h 48m
About this audiobook
Seventeen years ago, Evie put the truth in a bottle and threw it into the sea.
She was sixteen the last summer she believed she'd come back.
Lydia was the reckless one, the bright one, the one who dared her to be brave.
They sealed their secrets in green glass and made a promise: one day they'd come home and tell each other everything.
Then Evie left Bellhaven.
And she never came back.
Now Lydia is dead, and she has left Evie the one thing she swore she'd never want again.
The cottage.
The roses swallowing the mailbox.
The seashell mobile still turning above the sink, exactly where they hung it the summer Evie turned thirteen.
Evie drives five hours from Boston with her teenage daughter, Lily, to sell it fast and feel nothing.
But the key doesn't fit the lock.
The boatbuilder across the street won't meet her eyes.
And the whole town remembers a version of her she's spent half her life outrunning.
Then Liam says the words she's been dreading.
"She waited for you, Evie. Right up until the end, she thought you'd come."
There is a will that binds her to this coast.
There are brothers Lydia never knew.
There is a final letter, and a bottle still out there in the tide, holding the truth that tore two best friends apart.
Evie has spent her whole life choosing careful over brave.
Choosing the list, the plan, the safe road out.
It cost her the one person who ever truly saw her.
To finally leave Bellhaven behind, she has to do the one thing she's always refused.
She has to stay long enough to find out what really happened that last summer.
And whether the love she ran from has been waiting on this porch all along.
The Last Summer at Bellhaven is a tender, slow-burn coastal novel about female friendship, grief, small-town secrets, a second chance at love, family inheritance, and the truth that won't stay buried.
Perfect for readers who love emotional women's fiction, seaside family sagas, slow-burn second-chance romance, dual-timeline secrets, and stories of friendship that outlast everything. A standalone novel with a bittersweet, healing ending.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Romance
Length7 hrs 48 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
14Chapter 12 - The Final Letter
2Prologue
15Chapter 13 - Running to the Lighthouse
3Chapter 1 - The Sea-Salt Air and a Key
16Chapter 14 - The Regatta Bet
4Chapter 2 - The Map on the Wall
17Chapter 15 - The Raft of Old Promises
5Chapter 3 - A Boatbuilder’s Silence
18Chapter 16 - The Text That Broke the Truce
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6Chapter 4 - The Sister Who Stayed
19Chapter 17 - The Cove at Midnight
7Chapter 5 - The Lockbox and the Lighthouse
20Chapter 18 - The Tide That Took Her
8Chapter 6 - The Photograph Never Taken
21Chapter 19 - The Morning After the Reckoning
9Chapter 7 - The Power Outage Confession
22Chapter 20 - The Reckoning with Clara
10Chapter 8 - The Brothers She Never Knew
23Chapter 21 - The Storm That Stayed
11Chapter 9 - The Girl Who Knew Too Much
24Chapter 22 - The Decision at the Pier
12Chapter 10 - The Rocking Chair and the Ocean
25Chapter 23 - The Last Summer’s End
13Chapter 11 - The Will That Bound Them
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