The Best of Us: A NovelParadise isn’t quite what it seems as four college friends meet for an island vacation in this captivating new novel from the acclaimed author of These Girls. An all-expense-paid week at a luxury villa in Jamaica—it’s the invitation of a lifetime for a group of old college friends. All four women are desperate not just for a reunion, but for an escape: Tina is drowning under the demands of mothering four young children. Allie is shattered by the news that a genetic illness runs in her family. Savannah is carrying the secret of her husband’s infidelity. And, finally, there’s Pauline, who spares no expense to throw her wealthy husband an unforgettable thirty-fifth birthday celebration, hoping it will gloss over the cracks already splitting apart their new marriage. Languid hours on a private beach, gourmet dinners, and late nights of drinking kick off an idyllic week for the women and their husbands. But as a powerful hurricane bears down on the island, turmoil swirls inside the villa, forcing each of the women to reevaluate everything she knows about her friends—and herself. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 31 |
Section 3 | 57 |
Section 4 | 67 |
Section 5 | 75 |
Section 6 | 93 |
Section 7 | 123 |
Section 8 | 145 |
Section 15 | 231 |
Section 16 | 245 |
Section 17 | 261 |
Section 18 | 273 |
Section 19 | 291 |
Section 20 | 295 |
Section 21 | 301 |
Section 22 | 311 |
Section 9 | 167 |
Section 10 | 185 |
Section 11 | 197 |
Section 12 | 203 |
Section 13 | 213 |
Section 14 | 225 |
Section 23 | 315 |
Section 24 | 320 |
Section 25 | 324 |
Section 26 | 326 |
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