These Summer Storms by Sarah MacLean

Alice Storm hasn’t set foot on her family’s private island off the Rhode Island coast in five years—not since she was exiled from the Storm name, the Storm money, and the Storm-sized expectations. She’s built a life outside their orbit, and she’s only back now because her father is dead. The plan: show up, keep it civil, pay respects (as much as you can to a man who weaponized love), and leave the second the funeral ends.

Except her father isn’t done controlling them from the grave.

Instead of a clean inheritance, the Storm family gets an inheritance game: one week on the island, a set of assigned tasks, and only then do they get what they’re owed. For Alice, that means surviving a house packed with old grudges and fresh chaos—an older sister with a secret affair, a brother who’s never met a boundary he won’t bulldoze, a younger sister reading everyone’s “vibes” like it’s a full-time job, and a mother whose judgment could freeze the ocean. And hovering over it all is Jack Dean—her father’s too-competent, too-watchful second-in-command… and the last person Alice wants to be seen by when the family starts to crack.

Sharp, sexy, and impossible to put down, this is a one-week pressure cooker of grief, power, and long-buried secrets—wrapped around a swoony summer romance and a family reckoning that’s been overdue for years.

Perfect for readers of:

• Inheritance drama + wealthy family secrets
• One-week “locked on an island” tension cooker
• Grief + healing with sharp humor and heat
• Swoony romance threaded through high-stakes chaos
• “I left, I changed, and now you all have to deal with it” heroines