Since before the Revolutionary War, the stately Georgian mansions of Charleston’s Tradd Street have housed the city’s elite. These gallant men and gracious women have enhanced its lush beauty in the past, and have been instrumental in creating a vibrant cultural and commercial renaissance in the present.
But the proud inheritors of Charleston’s cherished traditions are not content to rest on their laurels. They are driven by an insatiable craving for more—more power, more prestige, more passion. Fierce ambitions and raging desires are concealed beneath a veneer of southern charm and chivalrous behavior, much as the facades of their lovely homes conceal their private lives from passerbys.
And when a woman’s deception and a man’s obsession threaten to strip that veneer away, the members of Charleston’s inner circle discover that not even vat wealth and privilege can protect them from the searing consequences of their . . . WHITE LIES.
