AUTHOR’S NOTE

I’ve taken a slight liberty with time. Readers who live in Charleston County or visit frequently may notice this, so I wanted to explain. While this book will be released on September 3, 2019, the story takes place in the recent past, September 2015. This is only of note because Charleston is constantly changing. New inns and restaurants open and sometimes we lose those we love.

 

Because of the characters’ personal timelines, I needed Lowcountry Boomerang to be set in 2015. This is all Calista McQueen’s fault. Her story required Lowcountry Bombshell to take place in 2012, exactly fifty years after the death of Marilyn Monroe. And so the year of that book and all that come after was fixed.

 

That said, because readers like to know about restaurants and inns they can visit now, most of the locations in Charleston are portrayed in the book as they exist now. Cannon Street is not a one-way street any longer, though it was in 2015. The bed and breakfast, 86 Cannon, didn’t actually open until 2017, as did Brown Fox Coffee in Mt. Pleasant.

 

The exception to this wrinkle in time is that St. Andrews Church in Mt. Pleasant, which stood whole in 2015, was ravaged by a fire April 22, 2018, and the main ministry building is now in the process of being rebuilt. The church is written into this story as it stood in 2015.

 

I hope you enjoy roaming the streets of Charleston with Liz as much as I do!