THE LIZ TAYLOR RING

Siblings on Long Island covet a glamorous diamond ring that may be a family heirloom worth $2.5 million or a worthless fake.

Ten years after their father Ritchie Schneider's death, the discovery of a safe deposit box in the Cayman Islands prompts his oldest child, Addy, a 41-year-old married mother of 16-year-old twins, middle child Nathan, a married partner in the family's multimillion-dollar fast-fashion empire, and youngest child Courtney, a 29-year-old, single, unemployed, and desperately broke actress in Los Angeles, to reconsider and ultimately strengthen their sometimes-close and sometimes-fraught relationships with one another. Courtney's online escort service date–turned-friendship with octogenarian billionaire Sy Pierce, Ritchie's long-ago love poems written for his Liz Taylor–obsessed wife, Lizzie, and the twins' sexy Instagram posts add spice to the goings-on, while Nathan’s, Addy’s, and Courtney's gambling problems, old and new sibling rivalries, and mostly surprising plot twists sustain the tension and suspense. A subplot involving Lizzie's older sister, Maggie, who dated Ritchie before Lizzie caught his eye, and a lawsuit over the ring ups the stakes. Happily-ever-after endings all around feel easy, yet earned, and a bittersweet disposition of the troublesome ring provides a satisfying conclusion.

A fun, flirty, well-paced sibling-inheritance story.