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IT HAPPENS IN THE HAMPTONS
By: Holly Peterson
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 societyβs one-percenters vacation alongside local, hard-working people whoβve lived in the Hamptons for generations. Though sheβs looking forward to their move, Katie is wary about mingling with her boyfriendsβ East Coast elite circles. She soon discovers Southampton isnβt all that it seems to be on the surfaceβand 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 faΓ§ade 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 sheβs begun for herself is built on shifting Hamptonsβ dunes.
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