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Beatriz Williams, author of When You Loved Me

When young widow Lucy Cooper returns to her family’s crumbling Winthrop Island estate, she’s forced to confront both her estranged father’s mysterious death and the man she’s never truly forgotten. Thirteen summers ago, Lucy fell hard for Ben Ressler, a golden-boy athlete whose presence shattered her closest friendship and changed her life forever. Now Ben is back, his own career derailed by tragedy. As Lucy investigates her father’s obsession with a rumored pirate treasure, long-buried secrets and emotions resurface. WHEN YOU LOVED ME is a sweeping, emotionally charged story of first love, forgiveness, and the risk of opening your heart to a second chance.

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When You Loved Me by Beatriz Williams

July 2026

I love the Winthrop Island books by Beatriz Williams. With WHEN YOU LOVED ME, she shares a multilayered story that combines historical fiction, mystery, romance and family drama. This series has allowed Beatriz to build a rich, interconnected world where characters evolve across multiple books.

Here we meet Lucy Cooper, whose father, Bud, has died recently. He had lived his whole life on Winthrop Island. For years, he sought to find a legendary pirate treasure, which was rumored to have been buried somewhere on the island more than a century ago. In doing so, he had mortgaged the house and his savings. So Lucy has come home with her precocious young daughter, Elise, to settle his estate, and she finds a huge pile of debt.

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