BACK TO SEAGULL STREET: Senior Week in Ocean City, Maryland
BOOK TWO IN THE OCEAN CITY SEAGULL SERIES
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BACK TO SEAGULL STREET
BOOK OVERVIEW
In the summer of 1989, Juni Rydell met Jack Michaels during senior week in Ocean City, Maryland. One unforgettable week stretched into an entire summer—and a first love neither of them would ever forget.
Juni was headed to college and a promising future. Convinced he would only hold her back, Jack ignored her letters and calls and disappeared from her life. He told himself he was doing the right thing. Juni knew only that the boy she loved had abandoned her when she needed him most.
Thirty-six years later, they meet again in Ocean City. Juni is fiercely independent, with a life she built entirely on her own. Jack is successful, guarded, and still haunted by his past. Neither is prepared for the feelings that return, or for the weight of everything left unsaid between them.
As the summer of 2025 draws Juni and Jack closer, they must decide whether the truth about the past will finally set them free … or prove that their second chance has come too late.
Back to Seagull Street is the second book in the Ocean City Seagull Series. The first book is Welcome to Seagull Street: That Summer in Ocean City, Maryland (2025).
Cover artwork by Marc Emond of Stinky Beach Studio.
What it is…
🏖️ Set in Ocean City, Maryland
🔄 Second-chance small-town romance
🛣️ A homecoming to a place that feels more like home than home does
🎭 Dual perspective
👋 Familiar faces and complicated reunions
📅 Flashback to Senior Week 1989
🫶 Female friendships
🌱 Starting over after you’ve already started over
🏠 Neighbors who still know entirely too much
🧳 Old baggage arriving with new problems
🔍 New secrets on a familiar street
🌊 Beach-town nostalgia
🌶️ Low spice level
☀️ A summer of figuring out what comes next
🐕 Lovable cat and dog sidekicks
🎵 Pop-culture rich
📰 Contemporary life captured in real time (Summer 2025)
📍 Still “woke” if acknowledging the world as it exists counts
What it isn’t…
❌ As long as Book One
❌ Political themes
❌ Post-pandemic themes
❌ Romantasy
❌ Steamy
❌ Mystery or thriller
Book Details:
Title: Back to Seagull Street
Subtitle: Senior Week in Ocean City, Maryland
Author: Alissa Arford
Editor: Melissa Ringsted
Cover Art: Marc Emond
Publisher: Red Hill Creek Enterprises, LLC
Publication Date: September 1, 2026
Length: 261 Pages
Language: English
Format: Paperback and eBook
Availability: Amazon
Paperback:
ISBN: 979-8998529924
MSRP: $19.99
Kindle:
Price: $9.99 USD
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