Thank you NetGalley and publisher for this arc!!

What a good book! I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. I loved the main characters! They had great chemistry and worked so well together. I loved how the book just flowed. My first by this author but will not be my last!!!

This book touched my heart. Avalee Elvis and her partner reclaim abandoned properties. Now they have a huge project to reclaim a ghost town. In a meeting with investors, she is shocked to learn that they have hired the one person in the world who Avalee didn't want to see again to oversee the project.

They want to save as much of the town as possible, while at the same time, bring it up to date for businesses, visitors, and residents to enjoy the town again. They uncover surprises, both in abandoned building parts, people and emotions. There is also a discovery that shakes Avalee to the core and others that touch her heart and soul.

I love the themes of rescue, recovery, and the acceptance of the past so that the future can commence.

I listened to the audio version and the narrator was great.

After reading Under the Magnolias, I became a fan of Ms. Lowe's writing. That book wrecked my reading heart. I was granted access to an advance reader listening copy of the audiobook of Lowcountry Lost and I can't wait to share how deeply it moved me. Avalee is our main character who runs a restoration business with two partners. At the start of the story we discover that the structural engineer that is hired by the investors for the restoration of a small South Carolina town is her ex-husband. They share a history of loss that crumbled the structure of their marriage and left Avalee hollowed out and existing by not letting too many in too close. There are many other characters that we meet along the way in the form of the crew, Avalee's grandmother and a young man who has a story of his own to share. I really love the way the author pulls us into Avalee's grief and helps us feel the gravity of it. At times, I wanted her to quit fighting the release of it around those that loved her but I've never been through the losses that she experienced so I have no way of really understanding that level of grief. The author helped me feel a small measure of the heartache that these characters experienced. I was sobbing by the end of this audiobook. Only issues that I had which were not big ones... I wanted to have the narrator lean into that Irish lilt a little heavier. I'm not against a Christian focused book necessarily and I do appreciate that T.I. Lowe weaves it in very lightly so as to not make it the focus but to be fair, it's not marketed as a Christian-based book so that can throw people off if they are unaware. 4.5 solid stars for this one!

This was an emotional roller coaster!🎢

Avalee works as a contractor in Somewhere, South Carolina. She loves breathing new life into her projects and is looking forward to transforming a ghost town into a big, beautiful space!

She is horrified to hear a very familiar voice at one of the first planning meetings…that of her ex-husband Rowan.
She wants nothing to do with him since their breakup 6 years ago…

But now, they’ll be working together very closely…for a while…

This was a very refreshing read! It brought out SO MANY emotions as we explored all that the two of them went through before their breakup.
And, it opened my eyes to the realities of loss… 🥺

Loved the very small town vibes.
Love the camaraderie of the town and her work force, and friends, and family!
And, loved the Southern drawl that you could believe you were hearing in every scene…

Sweet. Beautiful. Heart wrenching at times….story.

4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for me!

Thanks to #NetGalley #RBMedia and #RecordedBooksMedia for an ARCof the audiobook which was already released on 10/22/24…so look 👀 for it now!

#Loscountry Lost by #TILowe and narrated nicely by #ZuraJohnson.

This was an emotional roller coaster!🎢

Avalee works as a contractor in Somewhere, South Carolina. She loves breathing new life into her projects and is looking forward to transforming a ghost town into a big, beautiful space!

She is horrified to hear a very familiar voice at one of the first planning meetings…that of her ex-husband Rowan.
She wants nothing to do with him since their breakup 6 years ago…

But now, they’ll be working together very closely…for a while…

This was a very refreshing read! It brought out SO MANY emotions as we explored all that the two of them went through before their breakup.
And, it opened my eyes to the realities of loss… 🥺

Loved the very small town vibes.
Love the camaraderie of the town and her work force, and friends, and family!
And, loved the Southern drawl that you could believe you were hearing in every scene…

Sweet. Beautiful. Heart wrenching at times….story.

4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for me!

Thanks to #NetGalley #RBMedia and #RecordedBooksMedia for an ARCof the audiobook which was already released on 10/22/24…so look 👀 for it now!

#Loscountry Lost by #TILowe and narrated nicely by #ZuraJohnson.

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Lowountry Lost was such a great listen. It was a great story, had a great cast of characters, and had a great narrator.

Take yourself to the most quaint little country town, andwith the most genuine gal , and be ready fro a really sweet story with this one! I absoultely loved every part of it.