McBride, Susan

"When a photo of Katie's popular boyfriend Mark having drunken sex with a tattooed girl at a party goes viral at their exclusive boarding school, Katie is devastated. Mark swears that he doesn't remember anything. But Rose, the girl in the photo, is missing--and Katie receives a gruesome present in the mail: a badly wrapped severed hand with a red rose tattoo"--.

Ex-socialite Andy Kendricks agrees to surround herself with Dallas debutantes at a Botox party as a favor to her society reporter friend and finds herself investigating the death of former beauty queen Miranda DuBois, who held a vicious grudge against her plastic surgeon.

Dallas socialite Cissy Blevins Kendricks checks herself into the Belle Meade retirement community to conduct an investigation after her friend, Bebe Kent, is found dead and Cissy is led to believe she was murdered, dragging her amateur sleuth daughter, Andrea, into her plan and uncovering pending lawsuits, missing medication, and a discreet matchmaking club.

Toni Ashton returns home when her mother, Evie, suffers a massive stroke, and as she tries to put her mother's house in order she uncovers long-buried secrets about Evie, her Aunt Anna, who disappeared fifty years earlier on the eve of her wedding, and a long line of family secrets that have shaped Toni's own life.

Heiress Andy Kendricks wants no part of the Junior League life and chooses a normal job and lower class friends. When her friend Molly is accused of killing her boss at the sleazy local restaurant "Jugs," Andy is on the scene, trying to clear Molly's name.

Houston debutantes Laura, Mac, Ginger, and Jo Lynn fall in love and plot revenge amid their first round of etiquette classes.

Rising high school seniors and life-long best friends Laura, Mac, and Ginger hope for invitations to be introduced to Houston, Texas, society as Glass Slipper Debutantes, while each faces family and boyfriend issues and Jo Lynn plots Laura's downfall.