ELIN HILDERBRAND - The Five-Star Weekend

A fun fiction that I couldn’t put down, description below: After tragedy strikes, Hollis Shaw gathers four friends from different stages of her life for an unforgettable weekend on Nantucket. Hollis is the creator of the popular food blog Hungry with Hollis and is married to Matthew, a successful heart surgeon. But after a heated argument one snowy morning, Matthew leaves for the airport and is killed in a car accident. In the aftermath, the cracks in Hollis’s life—her strained marriage and complicated relationship with her daughter, Caroline—only deepen. Seeking connection, Hollis decides to host a Five-Star Weekend, where one friend from each phase of her life—teen years, twenties, thirties, and midlife—joins her for a retreat. But the weekend doesn’t unfold as planned. Tatum, her childhood best friend, brings along Hollis’s first love, Jack Finigan, rekindling old feelings. Tatum also clashes with Dru-Ann, Hollis’s sharp, ambitious college friend, whose career as a sports agent is on the line after controversial remarks go viral. Brooke, her best friend from her thirties, is reeling from discovering—again—that her husband is involved with someone at work. And Gigi, a stranger who connected with Hollis through her blog, arrives with secrets of her own. As emotions run high, past wounds resurface, and friendships are tested. The Five-Star Weekend is a captivating story of love, loss, and the power of second chances.