The Sinclairs live a charmed life they are rich and spend summers on their private island. In addition, Harris begins to lose his hold over much of the family, anyway, due to the onset of dementia. The novel follows Cady Sinclair, a teenager recovering from amnesia after a mysterious accident. He has New Clairmont built on the ashes of the old house, and the new building is bereft of the memories and home comforts of the original.

While their act of rebellion was designed to strip Harris of his power over the rest of the family, it is questionable as to whether it worked at all.

In the midst of this family unrest, his three oldest grandchildren and their friend decide to burn down the main house on the island, killing Johnny, Mirren, and Gat in the process. When Tipper dies, the family begins to unravel as the sisters openly fight over her possessions and try to curry Harris’s favor in the hopes of receiving a larger share of the inheritance. In addition, Harris has promised each of his daughters a large inheritance and has allowed them to become dependent on his money-none of them is financially self-sufficient. While Harris is superficially welcoming to the men, he subtly attempts to ensure that they do not really become part of the family. This becomes clear one summer when Carrie arrives on the island with her new boyfriend, Ed, and his nephew, Gat, both of whom are of South Asian descent.

This allows them all to spend each summer together on the island, and as a result, the family is close-knit and closed off to outsiders. They use their wealth to buy a private island that they call Beechwood, where they build separate houses there for their three daughters- Penny, Carrie, and Bess-and their children. The patriarch of the Sinclair family, Harris and his late wife, Tipper, have amassed a considerable fortune.

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