Sharing a beach house on Fire Island seems like a killer way for best friends Zoe, Sage and Nick to spend summer together. But just as they’re dreaming of sunset margaritas and late-night barbecues, the body of their house hostess washes up on the beach. Talk about a buzz kill…

Now all Zoe can think about is why the “grieving” husband is planning parties rather than mourning his wife. Nick suddenly has secrets he can’t tell a soul. And Sage is trying to score booty as if it’s her last summer on earth… which it just might be. Because despite the ocean views and endless parties, Zoe, Sage and Nick have stopped wondering if the good times will last and started wondering if they will….

Lynda Curnyn is a native New Yorker who hasn't migrated very far from her Brooklyn birthplace. She spent her adolescence on Long Island but escaped to downtown Manhattan just as soon as she could.

After getting a liberal arts degree from New College at Hofstra University, she went on to New York University for her master's in English literature, even contemplated a Ph.D. before she realized she didn't want to spend her 20s in the library. So she did what all good English majors do -- she went into publishing, and was hooked. As an editor of women's fiction for Silhouette Books, Lynda works with some of the industry's top authors.

When a senior editor suggested to her that she might try her hand at writing a novel for the Red Dress Ink program, she laughed. Then she wrote. And wrote and wrote. And soon enough she had finished her first novel! Now she is a self-professed writing addict and happily writing a book a year for Red Dress Ink.