This epic and cinematic DEBUT novel captures the glamour and extravagance of a summer by the sea. For three months, this humble fishing village will serve as the playground for New York City's wealthy elite. For Beatrice Bordeaux, a college educated farm girl from rural Pennsylvania, her focus is reconnecting with her banker husband Harry. Instead, she'll be spending 12 weeks sequestered with other high society wives at Montauk Manor - a 200 room seaside hotel - while her husband dallies in his "extra-curricular activities." As Bea drifts further from the Manhattanites and towards Montauk's natural beauty and community spirit, she finds herself drawn to a man nothing like her husband.