Connor O’Toole is a promising tennis player and a recent law school graduate who gets pulled into a closed coastal world of wealthy people—and quickly becomes accustomed to its pleasures. He gets drawn into a hidden romance with a woman much older than himself, while at the same time growing close to a young, fragile heiress of a vast fortune. But behind the tranquil ocean paradise lurk dangerous currents and traps capable of ruining his plans and stripping him of a chance to break into the “upper league” of life. Whiting Award winner Teddy Wayne has written a dark, fast-moving thriller—shocking and cinematic psychological fiction that exposes the morals of the modern elite ruthlessly and precisely.