Bree Hodge was the first to face the friction. Her pregnancy was a lie, a carefully padded ruse to protect her daughter Danielle’s reputation. But Katherine Mayfair was a homemaker of equal, perhaps superior, caliber. When Katherine brought over a lemon meringue pie that outshone Bree’s signature recipe, a domestic cold war began. Every garden party and potluck became a battlefield of etiquette and hidden agendas.