During one such conversation, she lets slip the fact that her husband supplies the island with the cocaine that fuels its nightlife.
Their affair is all consuming and for a time they willingly share their darkest secrets. The heat of Summer and the beauty of white sand beaches brings a life of excitement and pleasure awaits them at every turn. They revel in the pleasures of their affair. It doesn't take much to bring her back to life and for a time, they find themselves caught up in a whirlwind romance tinged by the sins of the island sex, drugs, and money. And then a chance encounter with an uninspired writer turns romantic and although she's married, she allows this stranger to sweep her off her feet with promises of a Summer full of delights she will never forget. Nothing's stopping her and with each passing day, suicide seems to be a reasonable solution to the pain and sorrow she lives with. For her dying this way would bring closure to her all-encompassing grief.Ĭommitting suicide would bring the misery to an end. Her pain is as real as the ocean that surrounds her and she has long made peace with the idea of throwing herself into the ocean and drowning in its waters. It is more pain than one person should bear alone but her husband couldn't care less and views her mental state as an embarrassment.Įvery day she lives with the guilt of believing that her baby's accidental death was somehow her fault. The pain of losing her only child is overwhelming. Her marriage, such as it is, is loveless and miserable. It is more pain than one person should bear alone but her husband couldn't care less and views her mental state as On a small island off the Carolina coast, there lives a beautiful woman whose life is marred by grief and tragedy. On a small island off the Carolina coast, there lives a beautiful woman whose life is marred by grief and tragedy.
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