When You Loved Me
A Novel
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When You Loved Me
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“Utterly transporting . . . one of the most gorgeous love stories I’ve read in a long time.”—Emily Giffin
Local history insists that a legendary pirate buried his treasure somewhere beneath Windward, the decayed Cooper estate on Winthrop Island, but Lucy Cooper never trusted the fable that broke her family apart. When a widowed Lucy returns with her young daughter to grieve her estranged father, she discovers catastrophe: The property is mired in debt she canʼt repay, and Ben Ressler has unexpectedly turned up on her doorstep.
Thirteen summers ago, the teenaged Lucy never meant to fall in love with Ben, a Dartmouth football star vacationing nearby at the Peabody estate and the object of an all-consuming crush by Laura Peabody, Lucy’s best friend. Those few weeks were the best and worst of Lucy’s life, dooming her friendship with Laura. Now, after a fatal accident ended his dazzling NFL career, Ben has returned to live quietly in the Peabodys’ caretaker lodge. He’s also the last person who saw Lucy’s father alive.
As Lucy reconstructs her father’s troubling final days, she uncovers his research on the frozen winter of 1717, when a desperately wounded pirate sought refuge on Winthrop Island with an enigmatic healer. To Lucy, this history points the way to a different kind of treasure: how to heal from the fractures of the past and earn a second chance at love. But just as Lucy’s long-buried emotions sear to the surface, a shocking turn of events reveals that someone else on the island will do whatever it takes to claim the fabled plunder.
A timeless story of love and atonement, When You Loved Me maps both a centuries-old treasure hunt and the intimate territory of the human heart, weaving together past and present as only Beatriz Williams can.
Critic reviews
Praise for When You Loved Me
“An utterly transporting novel, When You Loved Me is a perfect showcase of Beatriz Williams’s trademarks: richly drawn characters, buried secrets that echo across generations, and the kind of emotional and moral complexity that lingers long after the final page. This is one of the most gorgeous love stories I’ve read in a long time.”—Emily Giffin, New York Times bestselling author of Love You More
“A beautifully woven story of passion, survival, and buried treasure in all its forms . . . When You Loved Me will both warm and open your heart. I absolutely loved it.”—Annabel Monaghan, New York Times bestselling author of Dolly All the Time
Praise for Beatriz Williams
“Beatriz Williams is writing the best historical fiction out there. It’s lush with period detail but feels immediate.”—Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author of Swan Song
“Williams is at the top of her game.”—Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Briar Club
“There are few more skilled practitioners of the craft of summer fiction than Beatriz Williams.”—The New York Times Book Review
“[Williams’s] novels are packed with complex, daring, and intriguing women.”—NPR
“An utterly transporting novel, When You Loved Me is a perfect showcase of Beatriz Williams’s trademarks: richly drawn characters, buried secrets that echo across generations, and the kind of emotional and moral complexity that lingers long after the final page. This is one of the most gorgeous love stories I’ve read in a long time.”—Emily Giffin, New York Times bestselling author of Love You More
“A beautifully woven story of passion, survival, and buried treasure in all its forms . . . When You Loved Me will both warm and open your heart. I absolutely loved it.”—Annabel Monaghan, New York Times bestselling author of Dolly All the Time
Praise for Beatriz Williams
“Beatriz Williams is writing the best historical fiction out there. It’s lush with period detail but feels immediate.”—Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author of Swan Song
“Williams is at the top of her game.”—Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Briar Club
“There are few more skilled practitioners of the craft of summer fiction than Beatriz Williams.”—The New York Times Book Review
“[Williams’s] novels are packed with complex, daring, and intriguing women.”—NPR
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