The Hotel Nantucket

While Edie is sending out resumes to hotels around the country for fall work, Graydon gets in touch asking for $1,000 and threatens to show the intimate videos of Edie to future employers. She realizes that he has guessed her password and is using it to hack into her emails. Edie recalls that Graydon, one of the most smooth and popular boys at Cornell, only became interested in her after she had “acquired the questionable mystique and celebrity of someone who had undergone a tragic loss” following her father’s death (272). Edie fell in love with Graydon and imagined a host of future plans with him. However, when Edie was made the student director of the Statler Hotel, Graydon became envious and resentful. This is when he began to demand that they film everything the two of them did in bed, even setting up scenarios that Edie was uncomfortable with.

Alessandra sees that Edie is upset, and Edie finally confesses her predicament. Alessandra informs Edie that revenge porn is a crime that could get Graydon arrested. Alessandra calls Graydon, masquerading as a fierce representative from the Pima County’s Sheriff’s department. Alessandra demands that Graydon return the money he has blackmailed out of Edie or face prosecution. Quaking, Graydon complies with Alessandra’s demands. Edie is grateful, and she and Alessandra grow closer.

Richie and Kimber are becoming a true couple and confess their mutual love for each other. Kimber, however, wants her children to know where Richie lives. He confesses that his divorce wiped him clean and that he is living in his car to save money. He did not tell Kimber previously because he worried that she would think he was dating her to stay in the suite.

JJ invites Lizbet out for dinner at their old usual spot at the Proprietors of India Street. When they are there, JJ apologizes again and asks for Lizbet back, both in a relationship and to manage the failing Deck. She finds that she misses him and remembers how happy she was when she was briefly pregnant. When she miscarried a child she was not even sure she wanted, she responded by refusing to have sex with JJ and pushing him away. She is almost ready to get back with JJ when she spots Yolanda and Beatriz and realizes they are a couple. Beatriz, who works in The Hotel Nantucket’s kitchen, is Yolanda’s lover, not Mario. Lizbet leaves immediately and runs to Mario’s cottage. He welcomes her.

Lizbet and Mario are a confirmed couple as they attend Nantucket’s Summer Groove, the final charity event of the summer. Xavier Darling is due to turn up for his visit, and Lizbet nervously prepares her staff.

All the staff are nervous about Xavier’s impending arrival; however, Lizbet is proud of how much they have grown since the beginning of the summer. She is conscious that Magda still seems to have kept her secret.

Kimber asks Richie to move to New York with her and her family when they leave and become a permanent fixture in her life.

Chad is introduced to a new cleaning partner, Doris, and worries that Bibi has been fired. He regrets not getting her number but refrained from doing so in case it garnered suspicion. He finds Magda at the end of the day, looking like “some hot older woman,” and is set to go for a drink with her (304).

Alessandra, who has stopped making conquests since the incident with Bone Williams, thinks that Xavier might be the man to set her up for a life of luxury. She embraces the opportunity to visit Xavier in his room with The Blue Guide, thinking that this is all it will take to seduce him. She is rebuffed; he makes no move to flirt with her and calls her by the wrong name. Alessandra feels desperate and wants a rich man to make her life easier. She whips out her phone to initiate some blackmail and sends pictures of herself in Bick’s house to him with the message: “I need fifty thousand more […] Otherwise, these go to your wife” (314). She then decides that she needs an ego boost and tries to give her number to Bob Ianucci, a hotel guest. However, he jokes that she is soliciting him, and Alessandra tries to pass it off as a joke. Alessandra tells Edie she feels sick, and Edie agrees to cover for her.

Over drinks, Chad tells Magda the truth about May 22, the day that still haunts him. He had a wild party in his parents’ house and recklessly popped a champagne cork, causing the accident that took Paddy’s eyesight. Moreover, someone started a fire in his parents’ house, causing their elderly beloved dog, Lulu, to die. His sister, Leith, has not spoken to him since. After, his parents were mainly concerned with covering up their reputation and no scandal leaking out. Chad is due to start working at his father’s business in the fall, but he prefers working at the hotel. Magda says that Chad’s summer at the hotel proves that he has character. Chad is thrilled to learn that Bibi is going to college on a scholarship to study criminal justice.

Lizbet and Mario are happier than ever and declare their mutual love.

Grace spies on Xavier and Magda making love in his suite. After, Xavier proposes with a Harry Winston ring, but Magda rejects him, saying that she does not love him and that she wants to stay on Nantucket. Richie, meanwhile, is taking suspicious phone calls from Lizbet’s office.

Lizbet is disconcerted to find that Xavier has already left. Meanwhile, Edie checks out the Marsh family, who are thrilled with their stay. Wanda cries, thinking Grace will be lonely without her. Lizbet tells Edie that she wants her to be the front desk manager next summer. Meanwhile, Mr. Ianucci makes so many demands that Edie suspects him of being Shelly Carpenter.

Heidi Bick turns up at reception and demands to know where Alessandra is. She shows Edie the photos that Alessandra was using to blackmail her and tells her about the attempt to frame Lyric. When Heidi leaves, Edie finds an envelope filled with all of Alessandra’s $1,000 bonuses and a note from Alessandra stating that they are rightfully Edie’s.

Edie goes to Alessandra’s and finds her on the verge of escaping the island. Edie persuades her to stay, and Alessandra confesses the scale of her summer sexual conquests, both with Michael and the hotel guests. They decide to split the bonuses, taking $2,000 each.