Alice is unlike the other siblings in the Storm family. While the others stayed behind to fight for their parents’ attention, approval, and immense fortune, she left, building her own life beyond the family name and its influence. Nothing could make her return to their private island. Except for her father’s death.

Alice planned to leave after the funeral was over. Unfortunately, her father had other plans. The eccentric, manipulative patriarch left the family one final challenge—a game of inheritance. The rules are clear: stay on the island for one week and complete the trials.

This is impossible for Alice. Every corner of the huge old house overflows with dysfunctional chaos: her eldest sister’s secret love affair; her brother’s endless, rambling explanations; her sister-in-law’s blatant greed; her youngest sister’s obsession with “atmosphere”; her mother’s tendency to stoke competition among her children… And above all, the strict, ever-watchful gaze of Jack Dean, her father’s enigmatic and impossibly charming right-hand man.

It will be a miracle if Alice manages to get through this week unscathed.

A delightfully clever yet unexpectedly tender novel that explores secrets of the past, truths of the present, and futures forged in the aftermath of wild summer storms.