Adults can behave badly, too.

It's the mid-1980s in the tiny town of Longview, Texas. Nellie Anderson, the beautiful daughter of the Anderson family dynasty, has burst onto the social scene, and she always gets what she wants. What she can’t get for herself? Well, that’s what her mother, the blonde, beautiful, and ruthlessly cunning Charleigh Anderson, is for. Because Charleigh remembers all too well having to claw her way to the top. And now that she’s there, she refuses to let anyone stand in her way.

But during the span of a scorching, unrelenting summer, a new family arrives, and the back-to-nature prairie vibes of the Swifts quickly enchant most of Longview, threatening to take down the self-made social empire Charleigh has crafted in this corner of East Texas. Charleigh will stop at nothing to stay on top, unaware that she is outsmarting herself, setting a deadly trap that might undermine everything.