Recently divorced, Merilee Talbot Dunlap moves with her two children to the Atlanta suburb of Sweet Apple, Georgia. When an anonymous local blog starts dishing about her failed marriage, Merilee finds some measure of peace in town matriarch Sugar Prescott.

Sugar's stories give Merilee a different perspective on the town and its wealthy school moms in their tennis whites and shiny SUVs, and even on her new friendship with glamourous young mother Heather Blackford.

In a town like Sweet Apple, where sins and secrets are as likely to be found behind the walls of gated mansions as in the dark woods surrounding Merilee's house, appearance is everything. But just how dangerous that deception can be will shock all three women....


最近剛離婚的美爾莉．鄧拉普帶著她的兩個孩子搬到美國喬治亞州，亞特蘭大郊區的甜蘋果小鎮。當地一個匿名的部落格開始討論起美爾莉失敗的婚姻，她因此向鎮上一位受人敬重的女性粟格．普斯柯特尋求寧靜。

因為粟格的故事，美爾莉得以用不同的視角看待小鎮與貴族學校那些穿著白色網球服、開著閃亮亮休旅車的媽媽，以及和一位美麗的年輕媽媽海瑟．布萊克福德剛建立的友誼。

在甜蘋果這樣的小鎮，光鮮亮麗的外表就是一切，然而高牆圍繞的豪宅隱藏著罪惡和秘密，就如廣闊的森林，團團包圍了美爾莉的屋子。這些會如何震撼這三個女人？又會為她們帶來什麼危險？