When Cole's father dies, he is left with his grief and one impossible request: scatter the ashes on the seventeenth hole of one of Kauai's most exclusive golf courses. Unable to face it alone, Cole recruits his old friend Hayes for a “vacation,” concealing the true motive for the impromptu trip.

Beneath the mask of tropical serenity, the trip spirals into a collision of lives already fraying at the edges. Hayes is quietly unraveling under the weight of a failing marriage and the shadow of infertility while his wife, Tara, is haunted by a comedy career she was too afraid to chase.

Tara’s brother Leonard, dazzled by his musician girlfriend Alice, is drowning in his own chaos—being blackmailed by the porn stars who’ve turned his home into a film set. Alice weaponizes her own self-loathing into fuel as she fights to break free from crippling writer’s block.

Set against the lush landscape of Hawaii, Dogleg is a darkly funny, deeply human novel about grief, secrets, and the messy ways friends come together when things fall apart.