'Mean Low Water' Compelling & Intriguing
Charleston Based Author Stephanie Alexander Returns With New Book Challenging Lifelong Relationships
Jeff Walker, Entertainment Writer
In her most recent book 'Mean Low Water', Charleston area resident Stephanie Alexander offers up a compelling tale complete with female protagonists and intriguing page turning melodrama. A Washington DC native, Alexander graduated from the College of Charleston and the Charleston School of Law, concocting a fictional tale drawing on the legal profession and from her time in the lowcountry.
In a rural coastal community an hour outside of Charleston a handful of teenagers forged tightknit friendships they assumed would last forever. Although they came from different socio-economic backgrounds they connected over smoking weed, drinking beer, long boat rides on the Edisto River basin, and the misadventures in South Carolina pluff mud.
Not long after relocating from West Columbia to small town Asheburg, Ginny and LeeLee became immediate BFFs, two thick as thieves high school girls sharing uncommon prophetic gifts, as well as admiration for Ginny's longtime boyfriend, Makepeace 'Peace' Smith. However, after their college years, as is so often the case, marriages, divorces, kids, and careers took the entire group in different directions allowing for less interaction.
Now 35, and a rising divorce attorney living in downtown Charleston, LeeLee seldom focuses her attention on Ginny, despite the lifelong free spirit leaving, Asheburg a decade earlier with Peace, with whom LeeLee dated during their college years. Even though both young ladies share supernatural abilities to predict past and future events, shared intimacy with Peace may have created a slight stumbling block in their relationship neither could foresee.
Juggling her job, three young kids, and a failing marriage LeeLee's world is turned upside down when Peace shows up unexpectedly at her office. His own post high school journey was cut short when an injury sidelined his athletic scholarship, fueling several addictions and erratic behavior.
Presently clean and sober Peace returns only to declare Ginny is missing, and he is the prime suspect in her disappearance. Outside LeeLee's scope of the law, can this missing person's case reunite some of the old gang? Will Ginny, as some fear turn up dead? Has the flame between LeeLee and Peace been re-ignited now that her own wedded bliss has hit a snag.
Furthermore can a private detective who may or may not have been a former mobster, help provide enough details on Ginny and Peace's background since leaving Asheburg for Myrtle Beach and Boone, North Carolina? As the back cover states, 'Mean Low Water' explores the power of deep-rooted relationships, and even more so the baggage that comes with it.
Stephanie Alexander thoroughly defines each character, utilizing a specific timeline from the perspective of Ginny and LeeLee to fully describe the individual emotions evolving from the two personalities. Furthermore Alexander does a remarkable job describing the lowcountry landscape.
While 'Mean Low Water' is destined to be a female book club favorite, sensitive and smart readers will find Alexander's narrative equaling compelling. Sit on the back deck, or better still place a chair on the dock, pour a glass of wine and fully immerse yourself in 'Mean Low Water'. Just be mindful of the pluff mud. For more on this talented and thought provoking author visit her website at https://stephaniealexanderbooks.com/