Young, wealthy, good looking and smart, Ethan Cordrey meets the love of his life in the beautiful Tara Kerrigan. Offering her a piece of his world in high society not realizing she fully intends on taking everything he has with or without his help. Tara was from the other side of the tracks and fully intends on securing the future she thinks she deserves. No matter that her tactics are shrewd and illegal - Tara is in control of her own destiny and doesn't care who gets trampled along the way. In one fell swoop Tara manages to destroy the lives of some of the most prominent people in Dells Creek, ripping the core of a family business to shreds in mere months. After denying the inevitable - the Cordrey family realizes there is a psychopath in their midst and don't know if they will ever recover from the devastation brought on them by this insanely driven girl their son married.