The Best of Us

Four women who met in college accept an invitation to a week at a luxury villa in Jamaica, with all expenses paid. Their husbands come along. Each woman arrives needing a break from something she has not told the others.

Tina is worn down by the daily demands of raising four young children. Allie has just learned that a genetic illness runs in her family. Savannah knows her husband has been unfaithful and keeps it to herself. Pauline has spent heavily on a party for her wealthy husband's thirty-fifth birthday, hoping it will cover the strain in their new marriage.

The first days are easy: long hours on a private beach, gourmet dinners, late nights with plenty of drinking. Then a powerful hurricane heads toward the island, and tension inside the villa rises along with the storm outside.

This is contemporary women's fiction about friendship, told through the lives of four women and the secrets each one holds. The setting is a closed resort-style holiday, and the pressure builds as the weather worsens. Each woman is pushed to look again at what she thought she knew about her friends and about herself.