Hollis Shaw has built a life that looks exactly the way she wants it to look from the outside. Cookbook author, food influencer, and impeccable host. Then her husband Matthew dies suddenly, and the life she curated has nothing to shield her from grief.

Her solution is a Five-Star Weekend at her Nantucket estate. One friend from each stage of her life: a childhood companion, a college roommate, an old friend from her adult years, and an internet confidante she has never met in person. Good food, fine wine, and honest conversation. The weekend she is imagining and the weekend that actually unfolds turn out to be very different things.

The women arrive carrying old histories, unresolved tensions and years of things left unsaid. So, what begins as a healing retreat becomes something else entirely with the things that friendship lets go unsaid for far too long.