The novel opens with the death of one of the characters at a winery in Napa Valley. There is a cast of six Cornell University alumni who are invited to celebrate the opening of Raj and Rachael Ranjani's ritzy new Napa Valley vineyard for a fun 4-day weekend, all expenses paid. The other characters are Anjali, an editor with a stressed out daughter using the Puff vape to control the symptoms and Raj's almost girlfriend in college who seems to be hitting on her now; David, her husband who was fired from his editing job due to unacceptable Internet posts; Hari, Raj's college roommate who has always felt inferior to Raj, and an entrepreneur who has loved Rachael from afar for many years; Victoria (V), a social-media influencer who also pads her income with questionable online access from admirers. Raj is characterized as a social-climbing jerk who is frequently putting his wife down. He throws around his wealth, so is he really as wealthy as he portrays? The story follows the friends during the 4-day weekend which includes fights (physical and emotional), infidelity, and a plot by three of the guests. The book took a long time to get to the main part which I think was the happenings during the grand opening of the winery, Kismet and then the plot did not go off as planned and the perpetrators were never meted out justice. ( )