In the summer of 1987, 25-year-old Eve Rosen is an aspiring writer languishing in a low-level assistant job. With her professional ambitions floundering, Eve jumps at the chance to attend a summer gathering at the Cape Cod home of famed�writer Henry Grey and his poet wife, Tillie. Dazzled by the guests and her crush on the hosts� son, Eve lands a new job as Henry Grey�s research assistant and an invitation to Henry and Tillie�s exclusive and famed "Book Party.� But by the night of the party, Eve discovers uncomfortable truths about her summer entanglements and understands that the literary world she so desperately wanted to be a part of is not at all what it seems.