Nina gagne sa vie en escroquant la jeunesse dorée de Los Angeles qu'elle traque sur les réseaux sociaux. La jeune femme a été à bonne école depuis son enfance : sa mère, une arnaqueuse de première, s'est toujours débrouillée pour lui donner une vie digne de ce nom. Alors, le jour où cette dernière tombe gravement malade, Nina est prête à tout pour la sauver.
Elle prépare son coup le plus audacieux, le plus dangereux...
Vanessa est une jeune héritière richissime qui aurait voulu laisser son empreinte sur le monde, faire de grandes choses. À la place, elle est devenue influenceuse sur Instagram. Derrière la façade dorée, sa vie est émaillée de drames. Abandonnée par son fiancé quelques jours avant son mariage, elle perd ses parents et son petit frère est au bord de la folie. Vanessa va donc se réfugier dans sa belle maison de famille, au bord du lac Tahoe, pour repartir du bon pied.
C'est là que ces deux femmes que tout oppose se rencontrent.
Mais qui sait si leurs chemins ne se sont pas déjà croisés dans une vie antérieure ? Désir, duplicité et vengeance... Nina et Vanessa tentent de survivre à un incroyable jeu de tromperie et de destruction.
SOON TO BE AN AMAZON PRIME LIMITED SERIES, PRODUCED BY AND STARRING NICOLE KIDMAN ' PRETTY THINGS IS AWESOME. SIMPLE AS THAT. I LOVED EVERY PAGE' Harlan Coben Nina once bought into the idea that her fancy liberal arts degree would lead to a fulfilling career. When that dream crashed, she turned to stealing from rich kids in L.A. alongside her wily Irish boyfriend, Lachlan. Nina learned from the best: Her mother was the original con artist, hustling to give her daughter a decent childhood despite their wayward life. But when her mom gets sick, Nina puts everything on the line to help her, even if it means running her most audacious, dangerous scam yet. Vanessa is a privileged young heiress who wanted to make her mark in the world. Instead she becomes an Instagram influencer - traveling the globe, receiving free clothes and products, and posing for pictures in exotic locales. But behind the covetable facade is a life marked by tragedy. After a broken engagement, Vanessa retreats to her family's sprawling mountain estate, Stonehaven: a mansion of dark secrets not just from Vanessa's past, but from that of a lost and troubled girl named Nina. Nina's, Vanessa's, and Lachlan's paths collide here, on the cold shores of Lake Tahoe, where their intertwined lives give way to a winter of aspiration and desire, duplicity and revenge.
In the heat of a west coast summer three very different women, each poised for success, find themselves failing spectacularly. Janice, a devoted mother and housewife who''s approaching fifty, is cold-heartedly abandoned by her husband; her elder daughter Margaret, a magazine editor, is driven back home by towering debts; and her teenage daughter Lizzie is humiliated by the boys whose affections she has unquestioningly embraced. At first they hide their downfalls - bankruptcy, addiction, promiscuity - from one another, but as the curtain-twitching world they inhabit begins to intrude, they find their secrets exposed. And in the midst of the manicured lawns and country club whispers, the Miller women cloister themselves in their suburban home and confront first their individual crises, then each other ... All We Ever Wanted Was Everything is an astonishing portrait of modern-day women trying to stay afloat, of secrets and lies, and of what happens when the world you know comes crashing down.
