博客來THE HAMPTONS AFFAIR
She came for their world. She stayed for revenge.
Maya Chen has mastered the art of being exactly who she needs to be. On the surface, she’s Vivienne Ashworth’s devoted personal assistant-the perfect companion for an heiress drowning in anxiety and old money. In reality, Maya is the daughter of a line cook and a cleaning lady from Queens, running a long con wrapped in borrowed designer dresses and carefully rehearsed backstory.
One summer. One invitation. Everything changes.
When Maya accompanies Vivienne to the legendary Ashworth estate in the Hamptons, she expects champagne-soaked parties and strategic social climbing. What she finds instead is a glittering world rotting from the inside-cheating fiancés, embezzling socialites, and secrets buried so deep they could destroy dynasties.
Then Vivienne’s fiancé Sebastian pushes Maya too far. The public humiliation. The cruel dismissal. The devastating discovery that threatens to unravel everything she’s built. Maya came to infiltrate their world, but now? Now she’s going to burn it down.
Armed with a photographic memory, a talent for manipulation, and an expanding collection of everyone’s darkest secrets, Maya transforms from outsider to player-navigating dangerous alliances with a suspicious interior designer who shares her immigrant roots, a Russian trainer who sees through her masks, and James Wright, the one man who might love the real Maya... if she can remember who that is.
But in a world where everyone is hiding something, the biggest threat to Maya’s carefully constructed identity might be her own conscience-and the family she’s trying so desperately to escape.
A razor-sharp debut blending the social warfare of Crazy Rich Asians with the psychological tension of The Talented Mr. Ripley, THE HAMPTONS AFFAIR is for readers who love their summer reads served with vintage champagne, vintage secrets, and protagonists who refuse to play by the rules.
Perfect for fans of Kevin Kwan, Jessica Knoll, and Taffy Brodesser-Akner
