Fall of the Texas Kingdom

Ellie Vance stood on the edge of the manicured lawn, an outsider in the sprawling Texas kingdom of the Harrison family.

Her adoptive mother, Maria Sanchez, had been the trusted fixer for the patriarch, Charles Harrison Sr.

But now Maria was gone, her absence a gaping hole, lost to a suspicious "accident" shrouded in unspoken truths.

Whispers hinted at Brenda Harrison, the patriarch's ruthless second wife, orchestrating Maria' s demise.

Ellie, stripped of Maria' s protection, was now simply "Ellie," an insignificant shadow dismissed by the Harrison heiresses.