Jessie Gussman

Laura Wilson is back in Blueberry Beach, dealing with a mysterious illness that has depleted her energy and left her listless and unable to enjoy life.She's working part time in her grandfather's shop when a mysterious stranger rents the small apartment above theirs. He's strong and athletic and handsome and full of life and energy.They couldn't be farther apart physically, but they bond as they each take on more responsibility as her grandfather's health declines.Will they decide providing precious memories to the hundreds of customers in the little old shop is enough to build a future on?Reviews for Precious Memories: ★★★★★ "Each book just seems to get better as you get to know more about the characters. I loved Laura and Dwane's story and all those little girls. I anxiously await the next book." - MJ★★★★★ "I am so enamored with Jessie's skillful storytelling. Her characters become new friends that you care about. Life "happens" to everyone but the important part of life is how you handle the challenges. Jesse offers some insight into how people with faith might react." - HiDesertGranny★★★★★ "Have you ever finished reading a book and had that little glow and aaaah feeling? Well that's how I felt long after finishing this book...Jessie in her signature way gently leads you along and inserts gems of wisdom along the way as she tells a fantastic story. She tackles hard subjects with grace and tact, inserting Christian values as a way of life and action rather than lecture or judging. She is one of my have to read authors. " - Wren Woodland★★★★★ "When I see a book written by Jessie Gussman I know it will be a winner. The characters seem to come to life on the page and they become your friends. The story itself is always clean and well written. This book is no exception." - jill★★★★★ "Jessie Gussman has a wonderful way of capturing life in her writing. " - BJFBooks in the Blueberry Beach series: Yesterday's TreasuresTomorrow's BlessingsBeautiful ForeversPrecious MemoriesMisty MorningsSweet AfternoonsMagical TwilightsTender Mercies

Willen Hawkins knew exactly what she wanted to do with her unexpected inheritance: use it to fix up the Indigo Inn at Blueberry Beach.After all, it's been more than eighteen years since she graduated from Blueberry Beach High and left town.The life she's created for herself is far more lonely than the life she'd envisioned for herself as a teen. But if she wants to reinvent herself and start building the life she wants, she has to stop waiting for everything to be perfect and start now.Drake Jensen wants to disappear.Being voted the sexiest man alive for the past five years, starring in eight of the top ten highest grossing movies of the last decade and being the most sought-after leading man in Hollywood didn't keep his wife from running off with the nanny, taking his kids and destroying everything he'd thought he'd been building.Hiding out at a newly opened inn that no one has heard of before and getting a job as a laborer should keep his identity under wraps.He's not staying.But he hadn't planned on the town being so supportive nor on falling in love with a woman who is determined to make him her enemy.Can Willen learn that she doesn't need to be perfect in order to be loved? Will Drake be able to choose between Hollywood and the new life that could be his?Books in the Blueberry Beach series: Yesterday's TreasuresTomorrow's BlessingsBeautiful ForeversPrecious MemoriesMisty MorningsSweet AfternoonsMagical TwilightsTender Mercies

Willen Hawkins knew exactly what she wanted to do with her unexpected inheritance: use it to fix up the Indigo Inn at Blueberry Beach.After all, it's been more than eighteen years since she graduated from Blueberry Beach High and left town.The life she's created for herself is far more lonely than the life she'd envisioned for herself as a teen. But if she wants to reinvent herself and start building the life she wants, she has to stop waiting for everything to be perfect and start now.Drake Jensen wants to disappear.Being voted the sexiest man alive for the past five years, starring in eight of the top ten highest grossing movies of the last decade and being the most sought-after leading man in Hollywood didn't keep his wife from running off with the nanny, taking his kids and destroying everything he'd thought he'd been building.Hiding out at a newly opened inn that no one has heard of before and getting a job as a laborer should keep his identity under wraps.He's not staying.But he hadn't planned on the town being so supportive nor on falling in love with a woman who is determined to make him her enemy.Can Willen learn that she doesn't need to be perfect in order to be loved? Will Drake be able to choose between Hollywood and the new life that could be his?Books in the Blueberry Beach series: Yesterday's TreasuresTomorrow's BlessingsBeautiful ForeversPrecious MemoriesMisty MorningsSweet AfternoonsMagical TwilightsTender Mercies

As they agreed on the night of their high school graduation, Leiklyn and her two friends, Tiffany and Willen meet on the porch of the Manor at Blueberry Beach on April Fool's day, eighteen years after being given their diplomas.Life hadn't turned out as expected for any of them.A single mother for fifteen years, Leiklyn recently lost her job in HR for an oil company and her unemployment is running out.Could the manor she and her friends bought for $1 at a tax sale in celebration of graduation be the change she needs to move forward in her life?Or will it just complicate things when she finds out the explosive secret her fifteen-year-old daughter is hiding?When she finds out that her old high school crush - and the only one who knows her most terrible secret - now owns the hardware store and will be working closely with them on renovations, Leiklyn must choose whether she wants to start over somewhere else, or whether the draw of spending misty mornings by the lake with a man who understands her all too well is worth the risk to her heart.Reviews for Misty Mornings: ★★★★★ "This book was so good I didn't want it to end and I'm anxious for the next book. A heartwarming story that captivated me from the beginning. I can't wait for the next book." - MJ★★★★★ "A story of midlife, with real drama, & a second chance at life and love. It has a sweet romance woven through and an undercurrent of faith for hope." - Kindle Customer★★★★★ "Jessie writes about imperfect people making less than ideal decisions-so basically any one of us. She helps us see how those decisions make sense to the characters and gives us such empathy and caring. She doesn't excuse the wrong choices or downplay the consequences, but she shows how they can be redeemed and turn their lives around. This is Jessie at her best, telling a story that pulls you in and makes you forget the rest of your life, while lovingly planting seeds of goodness and redemption." - Wren★★★★★ "This is a delightful book and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I love the way Jessie brings God's guidance and His forgiveness into the story. As you read the book you can't help but love the characters. If you like a good cozy romance, you will enjoy this book. You just can't go wrong with a Jessie Gussman book " - jill★★★★★ "The characters really made this story, especially Leiklyn and Ethan, who had carried a tremendous secret between them that broke up their friendship in high school. I enjoyed watching them open up to each other and to try to overcome and move on together from the past." - loriBooks in the Blueberry Beach series: Yesterday's TreasuresTomorrow's BlessingsBeautiful ForeversPrecious MemoriesMisty MorningsSweet AfternoonsMagical TwilightsTender Mercies

They both want to make things work, but will their children come between them?Gage has been happy in Blueberry Beach, living above the store on the Main Street, working from home and raising his two girls. Alone.The tightknit community supports each other and his daughters enjoy working in the ice cream shop and playing in the beach band.When Zariah and her teenage niece, Macie, move in across the street, opening a clothing boutique, Gage's attraction to her is immediate. Their relationship seems too good to be true. Or maybe it's Macie that's too good to be true.When Macie is caught in a crime spree that includes stealing cars, destroying property and dealing drugs, the small community is shocked and appalled.Will Gage and Zariah's relationship be able to weather this storm? Will Blueberry Beach ever feel safe again?Reviews for Beautiful Forevers: ★★★★★ "The book was just all consuming, heart wrenching, wonderful, everyone should read this one, it speaks to your heart like no other story I have ever read." - KRP★★★★★ "God's grace is one of Gussman's favorite themes and she portrays it perfectly in Beautiful Forevers. Grace isn't a magic wand. It can't negate the harm done or whisk away the consequences, but it can show the way forward to healing and redemption. I have loved all of the Blueberry Beach novels, but Beautiful Forevers is my current favorite." - Charlene★★★★★ "Wow - This is way different than the books I've been reading. It also deals with issues we parents pray we'll never have to deal with. But life happens. And grace is there. And life goes on." - Kindle Customer★★★★★ "This is such an amazing story I love how Ms. Gussman's romances intermingle the problems of real life with the love story. I suppose I feel that way because that's the way it truly happens. Her stories always read more like a glimpse into someone's life, than a fictional tale " - Ballet in AK★★★★★ "Wow. I am, as always, blown away by the emotion and real-ness of Jessie Gussman's works. This book is such a great example of how someone (a teen, especially) may deal with grief. I was floored." - JanetBooks in the Blueberry Beach series: Yesterday's TreasuresTomorrow's BlessingsBeautiful ForeversPrecious MemoriesMisty MorningsSweet AfternoonsMagical TwilightsTender Mercies

The last thing Lindy Coats wants is a divorce, but deep down she knows there has to be more to her twenty-year marriage than laundry and loneliness. In an act of desperation, she leaves her workaholic husband a note, pulls her teenage daughter out of school in Pittsburgh, and moves to their summer cottage on the shores of Lake Michigan.Adam Coats can barely grasp the contents of the note in his hands. His wife has left him. That is what it says. And it says so many other heartbreaking things about how they barely see one another, or talk, or touch. How she's been laid off from her job for six weeks, and Adam hadn't even noticed. Worst of all, it is all true. Adam knows this. When had wanting to be a good business owner and provider for his family turned into this nightmare? He must earn Lindy back. There has to be a way.In the town of Blueberry Beach, Michigan, Lindy's new neighbors, a lonely single dad, a crotchety business owner, and a young mother with terrible secrets and a son fighting leukemia, begin to help Lindy discover how to infuse joy back into her life and heal her soul. She's even inspired to start her own business.But when Adam shows up, determined to reconcile, Lindy must decide between her bright new future or the value of yesterday's treasures.Listen to Jay Dyess perform this book for FREE on YouTube HERE: https: //www.youtube.com/SaywithJayReviewers Say: ★★★★★ "Jessie has written an absolutely beautiful story of forgiveness. This story and her characters are believable and relatable. She has perfectly described the raw and real feelings of a couple who's marriage is in trouble...This is a powerful and gripping story." -KKRG★★★★★ "The beach community feels like family and makes you want to host a barbecue and invite the whole gang." - Mom of 8★★★★★ "Jessie Gussman certainly knows how to touch her reader's hearts with a beautiful story of love and saving a marriage. I think this is one of her best books " - Lori★★★★★ "This is a sweet story of a man being humble enough to change and try to woo his wife back and a woman trying to decide if the pain is worth it to let him back into their lives. This is real and raw and vulnerable and yet full of love and grace and healing as only Jessie can do it." - Wren Woodland★★★★★ "As well written and realistic as it is tender and gives hope that what was lost can be reclaimed." - NormaBooks in the Blueberry Beach Series: Yesterday's TreasuresTomorrow's BlessingsBeautiful ForeversPrecious MemoriesMisty MorningsSweet AfternoonsMagical TwilightsTender Mercies

As they agreed on the night of their high school graduation, Leiklyn and her two friends, Tiffany and Willen meet on the porch of the Manor at Blueberry Beach on April Fool's day, eighteen years after being given their diplomas.Life hadn't turned out as expected for any of them.A single mother for fifteen years, Leiklyn recently lost her job in HR for an oil company and her unemployment is running out.Could the manor she and her friends bought for $1 at a tax sale in celebration of graduation be the change she needs to move forward in her life?Or will it just complicate things when she finds out the explosive secret her fifteen-year-old daughter is hiding?When she finds out that her old high school crush - and the only one who knows her most terrible secret - now owns the hardware store and will be working closely with them on renovations, Leiklyn must choose whether she wants to start over somewhere else, or whether the draw of spending misty mornings by the lake with a man who understands her all too well is worth the risk to her heart.Reviews for Misty Mornings: ★★★★★ "This book was so good I didn't want it to end and I'm anxious for the next book. A heartwarming story that captivated me from the beginning. I can't wait for the next book." - MJ★★★★★ "A story of midlife, with real drama, & a second chance at life and love. It has a sweet romance woven through and an undercurrent of faith for hope." - Kindle Customer★★★★★ "Jessie writes about imperfect people making less than ideal decisions-so basically any one of us. She helps us see how those decisions make sense to the characters and gives us such empathy and caring. She doesn't excuse the wrong choices or downplay the consequences, but she shows how they can be redeemed and turn their lives around. This is Jessie at her best, telling a story that pulls you in and makes you forget the rest of your life, while lovingly planting seeds of goodness and redemption." - Wren★★★★★ "This is a delightful book and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I love the way Jessie brings God's guidance and His forgiveness into the story. As you read the book you can't help but love the characters. If you like a good cozy romance, you will enjoy this book. You just can't go wrong with a Jessie Gussman book " - jill★★★★★ "The characters really made this story, especially Leiklyn and Ethan, who had carried a tremendous secret between them that broke up their friendship in high school. I enjoyed watching them open up to each other and to try to overcome and move on together from the past." - loriBooks in the Blueberry Beach series: Yesterday's TreasuresTomorrow's BlessingsBeautiful ForeversPrecious MemoriesMisty MorningsSweet AfternoonsMagical TwilightsTender Mercies

Sally Curtis is all about numbers, details, and the crisp pages of accounting ledgers at the inn. She isn't interested in messy human interactions or anything that doesn't compute in a spreadsheet.But when Peter Slessing, the farmer with a contagious laugh, requires her skills, she's thrust into a world where calculations meet chaos.Peter, always ready with a joke, suddenly finds himself laid up and struggles to remember that everything happens for a reason and that happiness is a choice.As Sally and Peter are unexpectedly stuck together, will their differences bring out the best in each other and can they help each other choose happiness?

Sally Curtis is all about numbers, details, and the crisp pages of accounting ledgers at the inn. She isn't interested in messy human interactions or anything that doesn't compute in a spreadsheet.But when Peter Slessing, the farmer with a contagious laugh, requires her skills, she's thrust into a world where calculations meet chaos.Peter, always ready with a joke, suddenly finds himself laid up and struggles to remember that everything happens for a reason and that happiness is a choice.As Sally and Peter are unexpectedly stuck together, will their differences bring out the best in each other and can they help each other choose happiness?

Dakota Esenwein's life took a turn she never expected after a heartbreak and a whirlwind of bad decisions led her away from her one true love. Now divorced, she's back in the picturesque town of Strawberry Sands, seeking a fresh start as she reopens the souvenir shop she inherited from her grandmother and struggles with the challenges of single motherhood.Ryan Landry, with the echoes of the rodeo still haunting him, is drawn back to the town he grew up in and where his family still lives. He's restless and unsettled, even as he takes a job fixing up the old souvenir shop which he does around his true love of training horses.As the waves gently lap the shores, the two are thrown together, their past mistakes hanging in the balance. Can Strawberry Sands, with its tranquil beaches and faith-filled community, offer them a second chance at love? Dive into a poignant tale of forgiveness, redemption, and rediscovered love set against the backdrop of golden sands and sunlit horizons.

Dakota Esenwein's life took a turn she never expected after a heartbreak and a whirlwind of bad decisions led her away from her one true love. Now divorced, she's back in the picturesque town of Strawberry Sands, seeking a fresh start as she reopens the souvenir shop she inherited from her grandmother and struggles with the challenges of single motherhood.Ryan Landry, with the echoes of the rodeo still haunting him, is drawn back to the town he grew up in and where his family still lives. He's restless and unsettled, even as he takes a job fixing up the old souvenir shop which he does around his true love of training horses.As the waves gently lap the shores, the two are thrown together, their past mistakes hanging in the balance. Can Strawberry Sands, with its tranquil beaches and faith-filled community, offer them a second chance at love? Dive into a poignant tale of forgiveness, redemption, and rediscovered love set against the backdrop of golden sands and sunlit horizons.

With her family and life spiraling out of control, Pam Corrigan needs an escape from the stress of her day job and decides to purchase the old inn just south of Strawberry Sands.Her mother will give her half of her inheritance when she remarries, but Pam isn't the slightest bit interested in another failed relationship. So she asks her best friend and neighbor, Mark Shields, to fake a relationship with her in the hopes that she can convince her mother to help fund the repairs of the inn she just purchased.Mark wants to help his friend, but a fake relationship is a bit much, until his sister insists that he needs to "host" her best friend for the summer. Suddenly a fake relationship is looking much better than spending another minute with the woman who killed all of his plants and took his dog to the pound.But as Mark and Pam juggle their respective families and their issues, they just might discover an attraction they hadn't anticipated. Will their friendship survive the chaos?