Genre: Thrillers, Suspense
Publication date: January 20, 2026
Published by: Sourcebooks Landmark
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 scene. She always gets what she wants. What she can’t get for herself… well, that’s what her mother is for. Because Charleigh Andersen, blond, beautiful, and ruthlessly cunning, remembers all too well having to claw her way to the top. When she was coming of age on the poor side of East Texas, she was a loser, an outcast, humiliated, and shunned by the in-crowd, whose approval she’d so desperately thirsted for. When a prairie-kissed family moves to town, all trad wife, woodworking dad, wholesome daughter vibes, Charleigh’s entire self-made social empire threatens to crumble.
Who will be left standing when the dust settles?
I’m going to need Miss Cobb to come to the front! Ma’am how do you end a book like that?! I am not okay.
This whole book was like a soap opera with juicy and tantalizing secrets. I found it hard to put down. I had to know what would come next. Being set in the 80’s was totally fab. I still randomly think of the ending. I need answers…or do I?
I highly enjoyed this book. This book was a nice introduction to this new to me author. I believe I’ll be reading more of her books. I give this 4 stars.
The Literary Vixen 