A taut, page-turning novel of secrets and strife. When two
families--one rich, one not--vacation together off the coast of South
Carolina, little do they know that someone won't be returning home.
Fripp Island, South Carolina is the perfect destination for the wealthy
Daly family: Lisa, Scott, and their two girls. For Lisa's childhood
friend, Poppy Ford, the resort island is a world away from the one she
and Lisa grew up in--and when Lisa invites Poppy's family to join them,
how can a working-class woman turn down an all-expenses paid vacation
for her husband and children?
But everyone brings secrets to the island, distorting what should be a
convivial, relaxing summer on the beach. Lisa sees danger
everywhere--the local handyman can't be allowed near the children, and
Lisa suspects Scott is fixated on something, or someone, else. Poppy
watches over her husband John and his routines with a sharp eye. It's a
summer of change for all of the children: Ryan Ford who prepares for
college in the fall, Rae Daly who seethes on the brink of adulthood, and
the two youngest, Kimmy Daly and Alex Ford, who are exposed to new ideas
and different ways of life as they forge a friendship of their own.
Those who return from this vacation will spend the rest of their lives
trying to process what they witnessed, the tipping points, moments of
violence and tenderness, and the memory of whom they left behind.
