"This story opens on Memorial Day weekend in a seaside town on Long Island, where Ruthie, her still-adored ex-husband Mike, and the couple's sullen fifteen year old daughter Jem are packing up the last bits of their household, awaiting the yearly arrival of a wealthy renter from Manhattan ... And thus begins the summer when every possible thing that can go wrong in Ruthie's life seems to do so. Her relationship with Mike ... seems about to disappear for good. The job she loves ... is under siege from a coterie of rich women from the city, who want to use it as an opportunity for social climbing. An old flame who once broke her heart and betrayed her is back on the scene ... and in the midst of it all ... Jem is possibly involved in a dangerous and destructive relationship of her own, a situation Ruthie may be discovering too late"--,Provided by publisher.