First, I had to lie to my boss. (Sort of.) Then my parents had a fight. (They never fight.) The pint-sized lapdog that is treated better than I am has thrown up. (Twice.) This vacation hasn't even started... and I'm ready to go home. No one in her right mind would actually choose to spend a week at the beach with a steel-Magnolia drama queen, a tragically disappointed diva-in-training, and a yapping, hurling, supremely annoying little canine princess....

Savannah, a journalist for the "Savannah Chronicle", finds her family's own dirty laundry being aired on the news when her mother takes part in a violent demonstration in the heart of the city.