After a family-friendly day of Fourth of July parades and games, hordes of young adults descend on nearby Greenstone Lake for some serious partying. Katie and Ryan work long hours at the exclusive Monomo Dunes Country Club, where the staff is an amalgam of affluent residents of Monomo, like themselves, and people from neighboring Worona, a blue-collar town that “sniffed the water but didn’t cradle it like its neighbor did.” The club employees socialize after hours, though the Monomo parents frown on too much interaction with townies from Worona, where drugs, particularly opiates, are a problem. Eric, however, has become estranged from the rest of his successful, Instagram-perfect clan. The two Murray children, 19-year-old Katie and 22-year-old Ryan, grew up playing on the beach with the three Clarke children, Amelia, J.J., and Eric. The Murray and Clarke families own adjacent beachfront properties on Seaview Road on Cape Cod and have summered there for decades. In McMahon’s first novel, shocking events test the loyalties and moral convictions of neighbors at a popular vacation spot.
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