Rowan B. Sinclair

Everyone's watching. No one's telling the truth.

Newport, Rhode Island: the kind of place where old money throws garden parties and new tech money tries to buy its way in. Noah Caldwell shows up as a junior writer for a glossy magazine, just hoping to get a foot in the door. Instead, he lands right in the middle of a world he'll never quite belong to.

His cheap rental shares a wall with the estate of Jonah Garrison—a tech billionaire who went from nothing to running the most talked-about parties on the East Coast. Garrison's got secrets, and Noah can't help but be curious, especially when he runs into his cousin Delilah again. She's stuck in a marriage to Tobias Beaumont, a guy who pretty much defines old-school power and control.

As the summer drags on, Noah stumbles into the strange, tangled history between Delilah and Jonah—a past that's shaped everything Garrison has built. What looks like another season of social climbing quickly turns into something messier: ambition, longing, and a kind of obsession that's as dangerous as it is compelling.

Behind all the champagne toasts and perfectly staged Instagram moments, people are fighting for the things they can't let go of—and Noah's right in the middle, trying to keep up as it all unravels. He's forced to watch as lives collide and old wounds resurface, until there's nothing left but betrayal, violence, and choices that hurt no matter which way you go.

Guest in the Gallery is a novel about what happens when you try to reinvent yourself in a world that's always watching. It's about who gets to belong, who gets left out, and the lengths people go to for love—or just to prove they matter. All set against the backdrop of Newport's sunlit coast, where appearances are everything and nothing is as simple as it seems.