Abused by her stepfather, distraught by the insensitive fumblings of college jocks, Demi wrapped herself in a cocoon, sad that her dreams of turning the tables on men are limited to coups she executes at bridge tables. When her mother falls ill with cancer, she is wrenched from her cloister and summoned to Boston to help care for her. There, she takes a temporary job with the Back Bay Club. Months into the job, her boss asks her to Nantucket to...