This first installment in a new contemporary series from beloved New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe centers around Marietta Colson Muir, a dowager of Charleston society who has retired to her historic summer home on Sullivans Island called Conquest. At the onset of summer, Marietta, for her eighty-fifth birthday, seeks to gather the last of her familythree granddaughters: Carson, Eudora, and Harperwith the intent to reunite them after years of separation.