These Summer Storms

Alice Storm has stayed away from her family's private island off the Rhode Island coast for five years, ever since she was cast out. She built a life of her own beyond the Storm name and its billions. When her father dies, she plans to attend the funeral, pay her respects and leave the moment it ends.

Her father has other ideas. The eccentric, manipulative patriarch left behind an inheritance game: each family member must spend one week on the island and finish their assigned tasks to receive their share. Alice has every reason to dread seven days under that roof.

The house is crowded with trouble. Her older sister is hiding a love affair, her brother is arrogant, her younger sister reads the vibes of every room, and her mother is coldly judgmental. Jack Dean, her father's second-in-command, watches over all of it. He is stern, and Alice finds him far too handsome.

This is a family drama with a summer romance running through it, set over a single week. It is sexy and sharp in tone, built around old secrets coming out and grief giving way to something new. The inheritance game supplies the plot's engine, and the reading is quick and absorbing.