Summary

In the Prologue, the narrator states that "everyone knows about the island of Sawkill Rock" due to its beautiful, wealthy residents and ocean view (iii).

In "Marion: The Accident," Marion Althouse struggled to cope with her father's unexpected, fatal car accident. Despite her own grief, Marion put her feelings aside to care for her mother and older sister, Charlotte. Months after her father's death, Marion and her family took a ferry to Sawkill Rock to work as the Mortimer women’s housekeepers. Marion worried about Charlotte’s potential friendship with Val Mortimer, whose friend had recently disappeared. Once on the island, Ed Harlow, the police chief, offered Marion a ride on his horse, Nightingale. When she mounted, Nightingale ran wildly. In “Zoey: The Snoop,” Zoey wanted to find answers to her best friend, Thora’s, disappearance. She snuck into her father...