NICOLA HARRISON was born in England and moved to California where she received a BA in Literature at UCLA before earning an MFA in creative writing at Stony Brook. She is a member of The Writers Room, has short stories published in The Southampton Review and Glimmer Train and articles in Los Angeles Magazine and Orange Coast Magazine. She is the author of Montauk, Hotel Laguna, and The Show Girl.
1956: On idyllic Balboa Island, just off the California coast, life seems peaceful and welcoming. But the lives of three women begin to unravel in shockingly different ways…
Milly Kinkaid's plan to fix her crumbling marriage seems to be falling apart before it even begins. She believed that moving her young family from Hollywood to Balboa Island might entice her increasingly distant husband to come home earlier after work. Instead, he's barely coming home at all.
Society matriarch Sylvia Johnson and her husband have been pillars of their community for decades, and have just recently begun a new business venture: The Island Club, a place for members to swim, play tennis and dine in style. But when she learns that he has been risking their financial security and putting their family's future in grave danger, she's not only poised to lose the club, but the entire community she holds dear.
Meanwhile, standoffish loner Adele Lambert's entire world is on the brink of being destroyed if the dark secrets of her past and her hidden identity is revealed…
Date: Friday, May 8th 2026
Location: Pine Lakes Country Club- 5603 Granddaddy Dr. Myrtle Beach, SC 29577
Time: 10:45AM-1:00PM
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