Sadie Roper returns to London, determined to gather the pieces of her shattered life. She needs to place her daughter in a prestigious school and reclaim her brilliant career as a criminal defense attorney. But everything doesn’t go quite as planned. The school isn’t exactly welcoming to new students; her daughter can’t seem to make friends, and other mothers compete with one another just as fiercely as their children do.
But the situation changes when Sadie starts working on a high-profile case. Julia, the queen of school mothers, makes friends with Sadie and pulls her into the very heart of a world she used to consider off-limits. Soon Sadie’s casework begins to go uphill—yet will she see the truth? Sadie keeps her friends close, but she doesn’t know that her enemies are even closer…