A family drama of dark secrets and individual awakenings is set against the backdrop of the turbulent summer of 1968 in Martha's Vineyard, where twenty-two-year-old Whitney Dane begins questioning her goals and sense of independence at the side of a fiercely ambitious, underprivileged man.

Adam Blaine arrives on the island of Martha's Vineyard to attend the funeral of his estranged father, Ben Blaine, a famous and charismatic writer who who has served as patriarch of his clan for many years. A man fond of sailboats, good wine, and women other than his wife, Ben Blaine has left behind a string of secrets in addition to to an emotionally distraught widow and his strangely aloof mistress, Carla Pacelli, a beautiful television actress who...

Young CIA agent Brooke Chandler, stationed in Lebanon until his cover was blown, struggles to convince his skeptical superiors that the bomb stolen from Pakistan by al-Qaeda operative Amer Al Zaroor is intended for Israel, not the United States.