

Later, Rowan is watching the young partygoers of Poppy's daughter Skylar's third birthday party begin to fight and goes to the kitchen, where her cousins, mother, and aunts and uncle are, including the mothers of the young girls. Later, Aster decides to go out to a restaurant and party, musing over her adventurous life and her relationship with Corinne, even calling Poppy to invite her over at one point, but she is too exhausted with her children to come. Corinne continues to try on dresses, all while reminding herself to not delete in her past and continue on with the future. A helpful Poppy, though secretly angry, leads Aster away. If their secrets ever got exposed, their world would come crashing down.įive years later, Corinne is having her wedding dress fitting ahead of her wedding to her fiancé Dixon Shackleford, with Poppy, her mother Penelope, and wedding planner Evan Pierce present when Aster comes, drunk, wet, and an hour late, all while reeking of tobacco and booze, thoroughly embarrassing Corinne. At the funeral, the heiresses to the Saybrook fortune all gather and muse over the night Steven died, and overall what happened that summer. The five impeccably-dressed Saybrook cousins, Poppy, Corinne, her younger sister Aster, Natasha and Rowan all come together for Steven Barnett's funeral, a man and a high-ranking employee of the Saybrook diamond company who was mysteriously found dead a week earlier. A gripping, edge-of-your-seat thriller about heiresses who must uncover a dark truth about their family before they lose the only thing money can’t buy: their lives.

Or maybe the perpetually single Rowan, who had the most to gain from her cousin’s death. Was it suicide… or murder? And who will be next: Aster, the beautiful but reckless girl who’s never worked a day in her life-and who’s covering up her father’s darkest secret? Her older sister, Corrine, whose meticulously planned future is about to come crashing down around her? Perhaps it will be Natasha, the black sheep of the family who suddenly disinherited herself five years ago. Everyone is shocked that someone so perfect would end her own life-until her cousins receive an ominous warning: One heiress down, four to go.

Tragedy strikes the prominent family yet again on a beautiful morning in May when thirty-four-year-old Poppy, the most remarkable Saybrook of them all, flings herself from the window of her office. But be careful what you wish for because if you were a Saybrook, you’d be haunted by secrets and plagued by a dark streak of luck. Beauties, entrepreneurs, debutantes, and mavens, the Saybrooks are the epitome of high society. Description The only thing more flawless than a Saybrook’s solitaire is the family behind the diamond empire.
