A Lowcountry Bride

In this sweet debut, two wounded people help each other heal and find their happily-ever-after. Maya is a talented Afro Filipina fashion designer at a prestigious New York City bridal company. She puts her bid for a promotion on hold when her father is injured and she must return home to Charleston, SC, to care for him. In Charleston, she meets Derek, a military veteran and widowed father who owns a bridal boutique. Derek offers Maya temporary work, helping to revive his struggling shop; their business partnership soon becomes another chance at love. Williams has written likable characters who work through serious issues (chronic illness; grieving the death of a family member; workplace racism), but Maya and Derek’s romance is underdeveloped. Narrator Carmen Jewel Jones does a wonderful job bringing the audiobook’s characters to life.