The Peacocks Have the Airspace. My Husband Doesn't.

Her husband left her for a woman half her age. So the dumped wife bought a swamp. Everyone laughed. Then they all had to land on it.

Georgie Kepner spent twenty years as the invisible one — the wife in the wet grass at the edge of the apron, handling the logistics that made her husband's glamorous private-jet arrivals possible while he took all the credit and, eventually, a mistress named Avanna Funke.

Everyone expects the usual story: the older wife, wronged, sidelined, quietly traded for the fresh young face. They have forgotten who actually knows how the Hamptons works. Because the Hamptons doesn't run on houses. It runs on arriving — and after the town gutted the main airport to punish exactly these people, there is only one field left under the only clean approach, one grandfathered strip with no curfew, that the whole glittering set has to land at.

Georgie buys it for the price of a used car. And then she does the one thing none of these beautiful, strutting people ever imagined the invisible woman could do: she starts deciding who lands.

Her husband can own every jet in the world. He still can't get wheels-down without her name on the sheet — and his name is the one that never makes it. The mistress clawing to be let into old-money society snubs a nobody pilot at the airfield, never dreaming he's the most powerful man in every room she wants to enter. And when the richest family on the coast tries to seize Georgie's runway out from under her, they're about to learn what happens when the woman they underestimated has read every paragraph they didn't.

The peacocks have the airspace. They've always had the airspace. They just can't fly. A Hamptons revenge comedy with teeth, a closed-door second-chance romance with the one man who wants the person and not the display, and three villains who end the season exactly where they belong: circling, grounded, and locked out. HEA, no cliffhanger.

A standalone in the world of Wives In Their Petty Era — the series where wronged wives quietly take a city apart. Read it cold, or read it after the others and catch which don plants the seed.