Life is good for Gilbert and Brenda Dossett until a cancer diagnosis cripples the family's finances. But tensions really spike when Brenda allows their teenage daughter's new boyfriend to move in -- a decision that will prove tragic for everyone.

Vern Holbrook's real estate firm is one of Yakima, Washington's most successful businesses. But this family patriarch has problems: a stepson whose marriage is crumbling, and a business deal that's going sour. Devastating tragedy looms.

In rural Georgia, single dad, Donald Ray Skinner, meets a beautiful Mississippi blond, Allene Hawkins. She's also a single mom and sparks soon fly. They marry, but it won't be happily ever after. Behind their blissful façade stirs lethal deceit.

Antoinette Frank and Ronnie Williams join the New Orleans Police Department in the early 1990s. Meager starting salaries prompt both idealistic officers to moonlight. Soon temptation and greed leads one cop down a dark and deadly path to murder.

After young lovers Deborah and Steven Brown are married, his erratic and malicious side emerges to torment his wife and their kids for the next 16 years. But trying to escape Steven's wrath proves treacherous for Deborah, and those willing to help.

When Anne Trenois meets Danny Bowen, he seems to have it all together, but ten years later Danny seems unable to hold down a job and Anne has had enough. The hostile divorce quickly spirals into a violent custody battle, which soon turns deadly.

A former military man. Gilbert Hart believes a strict parenting style is the best approach with his rebellious teenagers, but his wife Rebecca thinks that he's crossed the line. It isn't long before, this family feud escalates into an all-out war...

A shotgun wedding leaves naval officers John Marmo and Rebecca Braswell in a troubled marriage with a baby. As the relationship crumbles, allegations of infidelity and abuse run rampant. A fierce custody battle pushes both sides in a deadly battle.