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When You Loved Me by Beatriz Williams

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A young widow returns to her late father’s New England estate, only to be drawn into the hunt for the rumored pirate treasure that consumed his life, in this thrilling and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Husbands & Lovers.

“Utterly transporting . . . one of the most gorgeous love stories I’ve read in a long time.”—Emily Giffin

Lucy Cooper hasn't been back to Winthrop Island in years—not since she left for Europe, and not since her father's obsession with a legendary 1717 pirate treasure became the family embarrassment nobody discussed. Now he's gone, the estate is buried in debt, and the one person waiting for her on the dock is Ben Ressler: her teenage first love, and now a disgraced former NFL player whose career and marriage both ended the day a tackle went fatally wrong.

As Lucy sorts through her father's papers—and his increasingly credible research—someone starts breaking into the house, determined to unsettle her and keep her from digging further. When You Loved Me moves across three timelines: Lucy's present-day search for answers, her and Ben's electric first romance in 2012, and 1717, when a young woman named Hephzibah crossed paths with a wounded pirate named Ramsay on this same wind-scoured island. As the past and present converge, Lucy discovers her father's "crazy" treasure hunt may have been onto something all along—and that she and Ben might still get their second chance.

Fans of Williams' Winthrop Island novels (including The Summer Wives) will recognize the setting; new readers get a sweeping, atmospheric standalone that layers romance, family secrets, and genuine suspense into one unputdownable summer read.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A young widow returns to her late father’s New England estate, only to be drawn into the hunt for the rumored pirate treasure that consumed his life, in this thrilling and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Husbands & Lovers.

“Utterly transporting . . . one of the most gorgeous love stories I’ve read in a long time.”—Emily Giffin

Lucy Cooper hasn't been back to Winthrop Island in years—not since she left for Europe, and not since her father's obsession with a legendary 1717 pirate treasure became the family embarrassment nobody discussed. Now he's gone, the estate is buried in debt, and the one person waiting for her on the dock is Ben Ressler: her teenage first love, and now a disgraced former NFL player whose career and marriage both ended the day a tackle went fatally wrong.

As Lucy sorts through her father's papers—and his increasingly credible research—someone starts breaking into the house, determined to unsettle her and keep her from digging further. When You Loved Me moves across three timelines: Lucy's present-day search for answers, her and Ben's electric first romance in 2012, and 1717, when a young woman named Hephzibah crossed paths with a wounded pirate named Ramsay on this same wind-scoured island. As the past and present converge, Lucy discovers her father's "crazy" treasure hunt may have been onto something all along—and that she and Ben might still get their second chance.

Fans of Williams' Winthrop Island novels (including The Summer Wives) will recognize the setting; new readers get a sweeping, atmospheric standalone that layers romance, family secrets, and genuine suspense into one unputdownable summer read.

  • Publisher: Ballantine Books

    Title: When You Loved Me

    Author: Beatriz Williams

    On Sale Date: June 23, 2026

    ISBN 13: 9798217094820

    ISBN 10: —

    Format: Hardcover

    Retail Price: $31.00

    BISAC: Women’s Fiction

    Page Count: 464

    Dimensions: 6-1/8 × 9-1/8”

    Weight: —

  • Beatriz Williams is a New York Times, USA Today, and internationally bestselling author whose novels have been translated into more than a dozen languages. A graduate of Stanford University with an MBA in finance from Columbia, she worked as a communications and corporate strategy consultant in New York and London before publishing her first novel in 2012. Her acclaimed historical fiction includes Husbands and Lovers, The Summer Wives, The Secret Life of Violet Grant, A Hundred Summers, and the Wicked City series, and she has co-authored five novels—including The Forgotten Room, The Glass Ocean, and All the Ways We Said Goodbye—with fellow bestselling authors Karen White and Lauren Willig. She also writes historical fiction under the pen name Juliana Gray. Born in Seattle, she now lives in southeastern Connecticut with her husband and four adult children.

  • Pre-release readers are calling it transporting, atmospheric, and suspenseful:

    • Booklist (starred review): “Rich details set the stage in each of the timelines, with compelling characters and lots of plot strings that, in Williams’ deft hands, all weave together in a supremely satisfying read.”

    • Emily Giffin, NYT bestselling author: “An utterly transporting novel…one of the most gorgeous love stories I’ve read in a long time."

    • Annabel Monaghan, NYT bestselling author: “A beautifully woven story of passion, survival, and buried treasure”

    • Bookreporter.com: “It’s engaging, fascinating, moving and, above all, entertaining. This is Beatriz Williams at her best.”

This book is for you if

  • You want a beach read that braids three timelines together—present-day grief, a 2012 first-love flashback, and a 1717 pirate romance—without losing the thread.

  • You’ve got a soft spot for the disgraced-athlete-finds-redemption arc, and you want Ben Ressler’s comeback tied to a genuine second-chance romance.

  • You love a decaying New England family estate with hidden debts, a dead man’s obsession, and buried treasure that might actually be real.

  • You want your romance served with an actual mystery attached—someone is breaking into Lucy’s house, and it isn’t a subplot you’ll forget about.

  • You’ve already fallen for Beatriz Williams’ Winthrop Island (from The Summer Wives) or her Wicked City books and want another reason to go back—or you’re brand-new and want to start with a book critics are calling her best.

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