In 1987 Mississippi, recently divorced Rose Chipley returns to her hometown to collect an inheritance- her Aunt Polly’s creepy Queen Anne mansion- bringing a baby on her hip and the weight of a bad reputation. When the charismatic Bettye Little-Landrum arrives on her doorstep, she recruits Rose into The Attala County Garden Club- a motley crew of trailer trash, homewreckers, and suspected arsonists.

Rose begins to be plagued by memory lapses, curious household visitors, and a mysterious radio broadcast from a broken baby monitor. When the Club unveils a secret project involving a genetically engineered kudzu, the line between Southern hospitality and supernatural manipulation blurs. Rose must navigate the hedge maze of a hidden past to uncover why her aunt really left her the house, and what the Club is truly growing in the shadows.

One of Topher Payne’s earliest works, reimagined and rewritten twenty years later, this crossbreed of 1980s Southern comedy with supernatural pulp thrillers will cast a spell upon anyone who ever tried to fit in where they don’t belong... and then had to contend with getting exactly what they asked for.