This
US southern-flavored supernatural thriller, set in the '90s, is about a women's
book club that must protect its suburban community from a mysterious and
handsome stranger who turns out to be a blood-sucking fiend.
Patricia
Campbell had always planned for a high life, but after giving up her career as
a nurse to marry an ambitious doctor and become a mother, her life has never
felt smaller. The days are long, her kids are ungrateful, her husband is
distant, and her to-do list is never really done. The one thing she has to look
forward to is her book club, a group of Charleston mothers united only by their
love for true-crime and suspenseful fiction. In these meetings, they're more
likely to discuss the FBI's recent siege of Waco as much as the ups and downs
of marriage and motherhood.
But
when an artistic and sensitive stranger moves into the neighborhood, the book
club's meetings turn into speculation about the newcomer. Patricia is initially
attracted to him, but when some local children go missing, she starts to
suspect the newcomer is involved. She begins her own investigation, assuming
that he's a Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy. What she uncovers is far more
terrifying, and soon she--and her book club--are the only people standing
between the monster they've invited into their homes and their unsuspecting
community.