About the Book

I was eight years old the summer I became a Coastal Granddaughter.

That was the year my family began returning to Cape Cod every summer—a place that felt like magic, where time slowed and the simplest moments became the ones that stayed with you.

Coastal Granddaughter is my love letter to that feeling. Photographed with an intuitive, unposed approach, the images capture the quiet beauty and in-between moments that define life by the sea.

This book is meant to be lived with—styled on shelves, left open to a favorite page, and revisited whenever you want to feel nostalgic, grounded, or at home.

If Cape Cod has ever held a piece of your heart, this book was made for you.

xo,
Heidi

About the Author

Heidi Drexler Stehr is a photographer and creative based in St. Louis, Missouri. For nearly two decades, she has captured brands, people, and stories through a colorful, intuitive lens rooted in emotion and detail.

Shaped by a lifetime of summers spent on Cape Cod and the Islands with her family, Heidi created her debut coffee table book, Coastal Granddaughter, as a deeply personal photographic love letter to the place that has always felt like home.