The lives of twin sisters who run away from a Southern Black community at age 16 diverge as one returns and the other takes on a different racial identity but their fates intertwine.
A relationship that started in 1993 between Mallory Blessing and Jake McCloud comes to light while she is on her deathbed and his wife runs for president.
When Maggie Holt inherits the Vermont estate that was the setting of her father's horror memoir she is confronted by some of the people and relics he chronicled.