Welcome to Seagull Street

That Summer in Ocean City, Maryland

De: Alissa Arford

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

That summer in Ocean City, Maryland… What if starting over meant facing everything you thought you’d left behind?

In Ocean City, the summer sun doesn’t just shine, it sparkles with potential. Sunrises over the waves, sunsets melting into the bay. The Boardwalk buzzes with energy. Ice cream melts too fast. Strangers meet. Hearts break and mend. And under the two watchful eyes of a pair of oddball seagulls, anything can happen. During a summer like this one, the possibilities feel limitless.

Just a few blocks from the crashing waves and soft sand, on a quiet little bayside street, three lives are about to tangle in ways that will change them forever.

Ray Anders likes her quiet life as a cybersecurity analyst. After losing so much during the pandemic, she moved into her grandparents’ old beach house on Seagull Street to hide away. No connections. No noise. Just her dog Charlie, the water, her thoughts, and the comforting sound of birds overhead.

But then Olivia McNalley moves in next door.

A fast-talking, funny, fiercely loyal third grade teacher turned summer waitress, Olivia is trying to rebuild after a bitter divorce from a man whose spiral into conspiracy theories and dangerous real-world actions left her shaken and constantly looking over her shoulder. She came to Ocean City to start over. What she didn’t expect was to find an immediate, easy friendship with Ray… or to start imagining a new version of home.

Enter Evan Michaels: an Eastern Shore native, marketing manager by day, surfer by weekend, and friend-to-all by default. Newly single and learning to redefine his own story, Evan sees what others don’t: the way Ray flinches when someone gets too close, and how Olivia’s bright smile hides something darker.

Then things start to unravel.

Catfishing. Theft. A Boardwalk tram hijacking. And threats that hit far too close to home. As the summer heats up, so does the tension, and the past each of them thought they’d left behind begins creeping back like the next high tide.

In a summer of second chances, can three unlikely allies rewrite their stories… or will everything they’ve built wash away before Labor Day?

Told like a diary of summer 2023, with warmth, wit, and a touch of suspense, Welcome to Seagull Street is a slice-of-life beach read where romance, mystery, and unexpected friendship collide. Set against the backdrop of Ocean City, Maryland, it’s a story of fresh starts, personal resilience, and deep-rooted social issues that shape our everyday lives. Through it all, two peculiar seagulls—one with a missing foot, the other with a beak that curves just so—keep silent watch from the rooftops, witnesses to every twist, turn, and truth revealed.

Featuring original cover art by Ocean City’s own Marc Emond, editorial cartoonist and creator of Stinky Beach Studio.