<p>From acclaimed author Richard North Patterson comes a sweeping family drama of dark secrets and individual awakenings set against the backdrop of the tumultuous summer of 1968.</p> <p>America is in a state of turbulence engulfed in civil unrest and uncertainty. Yet for Whitney Dane—spending the summer of her twenty-second year on Martha’s Vineyard—life could not be safer nor the future more certain.</p> <p>Educated at Wheaton soon to be married and the youngest daughter of the all-American Dane family Whitney has everything she has ever wanted and is everything her all-powerful and doting father Charles Dane wants her to be.</p> <p>But the Vineyard’s still waters are disturbed by the appearance of Benjamin Blaine. An underprivileged yet fiercely ambitious and charismatic figure he is a force of nature neither Whitney nor her family could have prepared for.</p> <p>As Ben’s presence begins to awaken independence within Whitney it also brings deep-rooted family tensions to a dangerous head. And soon Whitney’s set-in-stone future becomes far from satisfactory and her picture-perfect family far from pretty.</p>