HerKentucky Whiskey Glass Rating: 🥃🥃

Publisher’s synopsis: For 20 years, Kayla, Antoinette and Val have performed their own special summer ritual. Once a year, the old friends put aside their daily, separate lives to drink champagne, swap stories and swim naked under the Nantucket stars. But on one of those bonding nights, one of their trio swims out from the shore and doesn't return.

After the surviving friends emerge from their grief, they realize that the repercussions of their loss go far beyond their little circle, and they begin to uncover layers of secrets--and their connections to each other--that were never revealed on the beach. What has made their friendship strong now has the power to destroy--their marriages, families, even themselves, in Elin Hilderbrand's Nantucket Nights.

HerKentucky Review: Three female friends hold a summer ritual every year — they meet on the beach once a year for a celebration with champagne and night swimming. When one of the women goes missing and is presumed dead during the festivities, a host of secrets emerge. This is Ms. Hilderbrand’s second novel — she’s a writer whose works I adore and obsessively read — and I’d certainly chalk the rough edges of the book up to inexperience. One of the storylines concerns a teenage boy having an affair with a much older woman, and it feels uncomfortable and creepy nearly two decades after publication.

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