First published 2025
Eugenia Ward watches decades of work slip away as Covid devastates her luxury fashion business. The single mother of five adult children faces mounting debts while desperately seeking new investors to save her company. Her daughter Gloria plans an expensive wedding to a man whose behavior troubles Eugenia. Her other daughter Daphne expects twins around the wedding date. Eugenia hides her financial crisis from her children, who remain absorbed in their own dramas. The family gathers for what may be their last lavish Hamptons vacation. Wedding costs spiral upward while Eugenia's sleepless nights multiply. An unexpected business proposal arrives just as family tensions reach a breaking point. Eugenia must choose between her roles as protector and provider. She fights to preserve both her company and her family's unity as everything she built threatens to collapse.
Genres: fiction, contemporary, 21st-century, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: family-drama, protector-provider
Setting: Hamptons
Period: Covid
272 pages · Hardcover · Delacorte Press