In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island as a schoolgirl from the margins of high society, still reeling from the loss of her father in the Second World War. When her beautiful mother marries Hugh Fisher, whose summer house on Winthrop overlooks the famous lighthouse, Miranda is catapulted into a heady new world of pedigrees and cocktails, status and swimming pools. Isobel Fisher, Miranda's new stepsister -- all long legs and world-weary bravado, engaged to a wealthy Island scion -- is eager to draw Miranda into the arcane customs of Winthrop society. But beneath the island's patrician surface, there are really two clans: the summer families with their steadfast ways and quiet obsessions, and the working class of Portuguese fishermen and domestic workers who earn their living on the water and in the laundries of the summer houses. Uneasy among Isobel's privileged friends, Miranda finds herself drawn to Joseph Vargas, whose father keeps the lig

New York Times best selling author Beatriz Williams brings listeners a spellbinding novel of romance, murder, power, and privilege that reveals the secrets of New York's most elite families and the resort island where they spend their summers.

In the summer of 1951, eighteen-year-old Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island in Long Island Sound. Uneasy among her stepsister's privileged friends, Miranda finds herself drawn to Joseph, who helps his father on a lobster boat. But Joseph has a catastrophe that will shatter Winthrop's tranquility and banish Miranda from the Island for nearly two decades. Now, in the summer of 1969, Miranda returns at last.

Twenty years after being banished from Winthrop Island, Miranda Schuyler returns to find justice for the man she once loved.

New York Times best selling author Beatriz Williams brings listeners a spellbinding novel of romance, murder, power, and privilege that reveals the secrets of New York's most elite families and the resort island where they spend their summers.