Julia Kern

Mackenzie "Mickey" Murphy is a hard-living, foul-mouthed, cigarette-smoking woman who moves to affluent Greenwich, CT to raise the spoiled kids of her wealthy sister who fled the country to avoid a federal indictment. She quickly learns what the rest of us already know - other people's children are awful.

For Mia, beauty is everything. A trophy, a promise, a ball and chain, a wish upon a star. A life sentence.

An accidental pregnancy thrusts Sadie into her memories of being raised by a serial killer.