It is summer and Cyrilla Tove and her daughter Bexley pick up and leave their native state of Louisiana to make a fresh clean start in the lovely southern state of South Carolina. A nosey young neighbor has eyes on them as soon as they arrive to the neighborhood of Halverson.

Ambrosia—a pushy, troublesome young teenager—quickly starts up a friendship with Bexley. Bexley soon learns that she is unable to trust Ambrosia inciting hard feelings and gossip against the unsuspecting newcomer.

Settling down in a new area for an easygoing life of peace and tranquility expeditiously gyrates into a move of upheaval. Before Cyrilla and her daughter know it, they have become targets around town.

To right the wrong done unto Bexley, Cyrilla returns to her dark New Orleans roots—in her sinister Louisiana fashion of knowing how to properly do things.