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The Summer Guests

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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Chapters 31-39Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of graphic violence, sexual violence, mental illness, substance use, and death.

Chapter 31 Summary: “Jo”

At the hospital, Jo tells Susan that a pair of hikers found Zoe, still wearing her bathing suit, at the bottom of a ravine off Stony Creek Trail, eight miles west of Maiden Pond. She is badly injured but alive: She is now in the operating room, but the doctors expect her to recover.


The Martini Club goes to the hospital. Jo tells them that Zoe was not sexually assaulted. However, Zoe was not able to tell Jo anything because she was unconscious due to a brain bleed.

Chapter 32 Summary: “Maggie”

The Martini Club goes to the ravine to search for clues. It is a difficult hike along the Stony Creek Trail. They wonder why, if Zoe was taken from the pond, the abductor did not try to get rid of her body in the water. Declan spots Zoe’s goggles dangling from a tree and climbs up to retrieve them. However, the tree branch breaks, and he falls.

Chapter 33 Summary: “Susan”

As Susan sits by Zoe’s bedside in the hospital, Elizabeth asks to sit with her. Susan tells Elizabeth that the doctors have put Zoe into a medical coma while she heals. Elizabeth tells Susan that Kit was often in the hospital when he was young.

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