Meredith Martin Delinn just lost everything: her friends, her homes,
her social standing -- because her husband Freddy cheated rich
investors out of billions of dollars.
Desperate and facing homelessness, Meredith receives a call from her old
best friend, Constance Flute. Connie's had recent worries of her own,
and the two depart for a summer on Nantucket in an attempt to heal. But
the island can't offer complete escape, and they're plagued by new and
old troubles alike. When Connie's brother Toby -- Meredith's high school
boyfriend -- arrives, Meredith must reconcile the differences between
the life she is leading and the life she could have had.
Set against the backdrop of a Nantucket summer, Elin Hilderbrand
delivers a suspenseful story of the power of friendship, the pull of
love, and the beauty of forgiveness.
"Clearly the Madoff family inspired this plot, but Hilderbrand gives
it her own sun-kissed, optimistic spin -- which is not to say it's all
Rosa rugosa, just that there's a silver lining to the ugliest of
circumstances." --Elisabeth Egan, New York Times