I didn’t care for this at all. Zara the stripper/former ballet dancer is grieving because her identical twin sister died in a helicopter crash with her rich boyfriend. Zara and Emma were very close - so close Zara spent weekends tagging along to the boyfriend’s private island, where they both met his brother Nash, and his father Alistair. Zara had a crush on Nash before their siblings died in the crash. Now she’s miserable, but Nash shows up after two years in the club she’s stripping at and demands a private dance, in spite of them not really having a connection or spending any time together even when their siblings were alive. Must’ve been some crush, because she leaves with him and takes him back to her apartment. She follows him on social media and knows he’s spiraling since his brother died. They have sex immediately, because…
Alistair, his father, has been in love with Zara since before the crash, and Nash wants to punish him. He leaves immediately afterward.
A short time later, Alistair arrives at the strip club and offers Zara a million dollars to live on his private island with Nash for 3 months, because his son is spiraling but seemed to “get better” after seeing her. Outlandishness aside, Zara and Nash barely knew each other TWO YEARS AGO. She literally approached him to see if he wanted to hang out right before the crash and then they parted ways without ever having had a meaningful interaction, but SURE, it makes total sense that his dad would notice an improvement and ask Zara to fix him. Even though Nash and Alistair haven’t been on speaking terms since the crash, so HOW he’s aware of any improvement is a bit of a mystery.
Zara agrees because she needs the money and finds Alistair intimidating. She and Nash start hate-screwing each other the second she arrives on the island, but she’s drawn to Alistair anyway. He tells her he won’t be seduced because women are just meaningless distractions after taking her on a random and entirely unnecessary shopping trip. Why does he need to buy her a bunch of designer clothes? She’s on an island with nowhere to go, and her plan to rehabilitate Nash seems to involve a lot of sex so she’s mostly naked.
Nash’s back and forth with Zara is exhausting. One minute he’s only using her to hurt Alistair and they’re having rage sex, and the next he’s supposedly fighting genuine feelings for her.
Meanwhile, Alistair demands that Zara learn to fly helicopters. He’s a certified instructor and wants her to get over the fear she’s had since her sister died. She agrees, and they get frisky at 10,000 feet. Alistair regrets it and tells her she belongs to Nash (what?!), and Nash immediately accuses Zara of fooling around with his dad but claims to enjoy “the competition.” In fact, he ENCOURAGES Zara to take lessons and sleep with Alastair. She eventually does sleep with him, but then runs away because she realizes she loves them both and can’t choose between them. Nash and Alistair talk, and Nash suggests they retrieve her & haul her back to the island and just share her, which is extra gross because they are father and son. Zara is weirdly FINE with the arrangement, which ends up being a sort of nightly ping pong between their bedrooms, until Nash tells Zara that Alistair slept with Emma the night before the crash. Zara is horrified, seemingly unaware that Alistair banging Emma is no worse than her banging Nash, and breaks up with both of them before fleeing the island.
A freaky Christmas threesome with Zara & his father was just the wake-up call Nash needed, apparently, and three months later his life is back on track. He tells his dad to fight for Zara, because he knows they’re meant to be together. Alistair does, and while Nash goes off to Amsterdam to find himself Alistair and Zara end up living happily ever after.
The character interaction and development wasn’t nearly as good as it is in the SPC series. I’d start there if you want to read Sara Cate.