West Hampton resident Samantha Bruce-Benjamin is no stranger to the summer dramas of 1930s high society. Her captivating first novel, The Art of Devotion, is set on an island in the Mediterranean in the 1930s and follows a wealthy family harboring dark secrets. Her in-progress second novel, The Last Party, narrates the events of the final party hosted by a fabled Hamptons society hostess on the day of the Great Hurricane of 1938. I sat down with her for a chat.