My sister and I were half way through a road trip when we stopped at a hotel where we had reserved a two room suite. Because of flooding in the town our suite was given to a flooded out family, Shelby and I had to do with one bed and a fold out sofa bed.
Unfaithful, inattentive parents in a failing marriage. Bickering siblings who can barely stand to be in the same room. A sister who jetted off to college and never calls. A long list of secrets and dark histories. These are the ingredients that make up the dysfunctional Greenfield family. But the oldest son's girlfriend has a plan to help repair this fractured family, by converting them to her own family's not-so-conventional lifestyle.
A teenage girl is lured into posing for pictures and having sex for money by the neighborhood child molester when she learns that her best friend is already doing so and using the money she earns to buy the nice things that she wishes she had.
Steve is sent off to spend the summer at his grandmother's house. It turns into a very interesting summer for Steve and lasts a lot longer than the summer.
Student arrives home unexpectedly from university only to find the house empty; his parents away for the weekend. He finds that out from his little sister who was out in the pool tanning her fifteen year old body. The reader should be able to guess what's going to happen; read to see if you're right.
A sixty something year old professor, a blond Swedish mother married into a rich Bostonian family, two young girls, 16 and 17, a summer on an island near Nantucket, a dark secret...nudity, seduction, a virgins blood, betrayal...a final reconciliation?