2000: Isabelle Whitmore vanishes without a trace from Sherman Ranch in Anhalt, Texas.
2025: As the annual Lone Star Princess Pageant looms, old grudges and buried secrets resurface. All of whom have connections to pageant pasts. Ingrid returns home for the first time since her sister Isabelle vanished. Just as a construction crew starts digging up Sherman Ranch. The pageant reopens wounds for Melanie. Tests Cat’s hard-won sobriety. As well as pushing Sarah-Lynn—heir to a pageant dynasty—to her breaking point. When resentments boil over and a record breaking storm cuts the power. The contestants soon learn that in Anhalt, beauty dies—but secrets never do.
