Adam the King

The wedding of billionaire Adam Bloch and Maisie Maclaren is the event of the year in Clement s Cove, Maine a town in which the mansion-like cottages of the summering elite sit side-by-side with the modest homes of working-class locals. Adam, a shy, tentative man with a terrible tragedy in his past, has, at fifty-four, reached the moment in his life when he feels he is finally ready to live and yet he doesn t quite know what to do with himself. When Maisie asks for a lap pool so she can strengthen her body, debilitated by years of Hodgkin s disease, Adam approaches his neighbour with a generous offer to buy the plot of land on which her trailer sits to make room for the pool. She refuses, and a chain of events is set in motion that pits Adam against his neighbours, the new rich against those scraping by, outsider against oldtimer, in an escalating struggle that can only end in catastrophe.