Saltwater

Following up her debut, The Cloisters (a Read with Jenna Pick), Hays takes readers to the island of Capri off the coast of Italy, where the wealthy and private Lingate family return each year, despite the death of matriarch Sarah, wife of Richard, 30 years ago. Sarah’s death is still a mystery: did she fall from the cliff accidentally or did she jump? Or was she pushed? For daughter Helen, those questions are a side note to plans she’s made for this year’s visit to the island. All her life she has been suffocated by her family’s power, money, and obsession with keeping up appearances. Now, having formed a friendship and alliance with her uncle’s assistant, Lorna, she thinks she’s found a way out. But the plan hinges on reminding everyone of Sarah’s death and threatening to expose long-buried secrets. Once the plan is in motion, they lose control of the players with deadly effect.