Blink Twice If You Love Me
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Publisher Description
For fans of Where the Crawdads Sing and charming southern fiction romances, debut author Laurie Beach brings a beautiful story of resilience, redemption, and romance set in the alluring small town Lowcountry marsh.
She’s determined for her rags to riches story to have a fairy tale happy ending.
Krista Hassell might be a member of the poorest, least respected family in Crickley Creek, South Carolina, but she believes deep in her soul that character counts. She’s finally curated the perfect plan—and boyfriend—that, together, will save her societal standing and rewrite her future. That is, until a family tragedy strikes and her mother goes off the rails…again. If only Krista could show her community who she really is beyond her old, crumbling shack on the marsh, she could find the inner peace she yearns for.
Army veteran Johnny Merrick came to Crickley Creek for a wedding and decided to extend his stay in the quaint town, renting the small house next door to Krista for the summer. As their friendship grows, Krista is forced to rethink the very relationships her plan needs to succeed—and yet it might be exactly what she needs to fully embrace what fills her soul most: the marsh she’s trying to escape.
But only if she makes her move before the fireflies disappear for the season…
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A hardworking girl from the wrong side of the tracks meets an emotionally wounded Army veteran in Beach's poignant second Crickley Creek romance (after The Firefly Jar). Krista Hassell and her family are considered little better than white trash in small-town Crickley Creek, S.C. Meanwhile, her boyfriend of eight years, Rye Smithson, is from one of the town's most prominent families and expects Krista to be grateful that he deigns to be seen with her. A year before the start of the book, Krista accepted a job in Myrtle Beach, happy to get away from claustrophobic Crickley Creek, even if it meant dating long-distance. Now Krista returns home to help take care of her brother, Zach, who has end-stage Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Also in town is Chicagoan Johnny Merrick, who arrives for his Army buddy's wedding and decides to stay the summer. Johnny's fighting his own demons and not looking for a relationship, but then a ferocious storm strands Krista, Johnny, and Zach together, during which Zach dies, leaving Krista and Johnny deeply bonded by tragedy. But will Rye's possessiveness and the town's gossip mill tear them apart? Beach expertly tugs at the heartstrings while painting a haunting and beautiful picture of South Carolina's lowcountry. Readers should have tissues at the ready.
