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William Morrow
May 2017
On Sale: May 9, 2017
384 pages
ISBN: 006239150X
EAN: 9780062391506
Kindle: B01KFBDM1C
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Women's Fiction
In the Hamptons, the everyday people are as
complicated and fascinating as the millionaires... When Katie Doyle moves across the country to the Hamptons,
she is hoping for summer employment, new friends for her
young son, and a chance to explore a new love affair with a
dazzling investor. What she finds is a strange cocktail of
classes, where society’s one-percenters vacation alongside
local, hard-working people who’ve lived in the Hamptons for
generations. Though she’s looking forward to their move,
Katie is wary about mingling with her boyfriends’ East Coast
elite circles. She soon discovers Southampton isn’t all that
it seems to be on the surface—and neither are the people who
live there. As George takes Katie on a whirlwind tour of country clubs,
haute couture, and lavish events, she is amazed to witness
sudden whims become dire needs, extra-marital affairs
blossoming right and left, and people purchase friends and
loyalties like a pair of shoes. Even the middle-class
townspeople maintain a determined façade while maneuvering
like sharks among the wealthy summer invaders. The more Katie becomes immersed, the more she learns the
secrets of both the upstairs and downstairs, the upper crust
and middle of the road. The combustion between the classes
becomes explosive as the summer tears on. Betrayals, a
sexual predator, and a missing person lost in murky waves
drive the reader on a racing Learjet ride through impossible
twists and turns until landing at the shocking conclusion.
When she meets Luke, a local surfer and middle school
teacher, he makes her question what it is she really wants
as she understands the life she’s begun for herself is built
on shifting Hamptons’ dunes.
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