New book published 2024! Charlie is already feeling adrift when she relocates to an exclusive town in coastal New England with her mysteriously distant husband and their young twins. She hopes the move will recharge her stalled marriage and she wants her kids to feel like they belong, even if she was a fish out of water herself. In a strange where summer is a verb and both the harbor and the partygoers are awash and the dizzying constellation of pinks and pastels, she’s never felt so confounded or alone. She’ll need more than a preppy handbook to find her way. Then a trio of power moms comes to the rescue, and Charlie clings to their attention like a life raft. Charlie dives into her newfound friends circle of yacht clubs, rivalries, and bizarre theme parties, hoping to find her sea legs. But, she’s running to escape her problems at home- and where exactly is she escaping to? Charlie is beginning to wonder. This ridiculous new normal, and her desire to be a part of it, it might just leave eat her alive.