High Season

“The island was a playground for people who didn't live there.”

Living in a vacation spot feels like a trap. Everyone else is there for a week while you stay and watch the magic rot.

“I was a guest in my own life.”

Clinging to a rich husband is its own kind of job. You trade your dignity for a private pool and a house that isn't really yours.

“She was the ghost of who I used to be.”

Bella sees her younger self in every new girl at the hotel. It is like watching a car crash happen in slow motion every summer.

“Money doesn't change you. It just makes you more of what you already are.”

Wealth doesn't make people kinder. It just gives them better ways to hide their cruelty behind expensive wine and linen shirts.