The summer wives

Summary: A spellbinding novel of romance, murder, class, power, and dark secrets set in the 1950s and '60s among the rarified world of a resort island in the Long Island Sound. In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island in Long Island Sound as a naive 18-year-old, still reeling from the loss of her father. Although a graduate of the exclusive Foxcroft Academy in Virginia, Miranda has always lived on the margins of high society. 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.