When Katie Doyle moves across the country to the
Hamptons, she is hoping to find summer employment, new friends for her young
son, and a chance to explore a new love affair with George, a dazzling
investor. What she finds is a strange cocktail of classes, where society’s
one-percenters vacation alongside local, hardworking people who’ve lived in the
Hamptons for generations. Though she’s looking forward to her move, Katie is
wary about mingling in her boyfriend’s 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, Katie is amazed to witness sudden whims becoming dire needs, extramarital
affairs blossoming right and left, and people purchasing friends and loyalties
like a pair of shoes. Even the middle-class townspeople maintain determined
façades while maneuvering like sharks among the wealthy summer invaders.
The
more Katie becomes immersed, the more she learns the stories of both the
upstairs and downstairs, the upper crust and middle of the road. The combustion
between 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 through impossible twists and turns before landing at the shocking
conclusion. When Katie meets Luke, a marine biologist and teacher, he makes her
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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About the author:
Holly Peterson is the author the
May 2017 social satire fiction release, It Happens in the Hamptons. In 2016,
she curated an outdoor cooking book, Assouline's Smoke and Fire: Recipes and
Menus for Outdoor Entertaining. In 2014, she published The Idea of Him and of
the New York Times bestseller The Manny in 2007. She was a Contributing
Editor for Newsweek, an Editor-at-Large for Talk magazine and an Emmy
Award-winning Producer for ABC News, where she spent more than a decade
covering everthing from trials of the century to global politics. Her writing
has been published in the New York Times, Newsweek, Town and Country, The Daily
Beast, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle Decor, Departures and numerous other
publications.
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