The series stars Courteney Cox, Greg Kinnear, Sherilyn Fenn, Mira Sorvino, Merrin Dungey, and Judith Light. A dysfunctional family moves from the city to a small town after Patricia "Pat" Phelps, a former "wild child" who became famous through writing raunchy female empowerment novels, is caught cheating on her husband.
A dysfunctional family moves from the city to a small town after Patricia "Pat" Phelps is caught cheating on her husband. The house the family moves into is a place where, in the past, terrible atrocities have taken place. Nobody seems to suspect anything odd except for Pat who is convinced she is either depressed or possessed.