For generations, the wealthy Jones family has dominated life in and around the seaside town of Pacific Hills. After the death of patriarch Theodore Jones, his second wife, Robin, assumed control of the family business. Now someone is coming after the family, trying to beat them at their own game. Using threats, blackmail, and even murder, whomever it is will stop at nothing to destroy the family and everything they've built. But the Jones family has faced adversity before. And when their backs are against the wall, there's nothing they won't do to hold onto their power... because when you mess with them, you are messing with the wrong family.
Robin Jones and her four stepdaughters have just survived several attempts on their lives by a family member who they assumed they could trust. Moving on from the ordeal, they realize that their problems haven’t disappeared: their business empire may still be under attack and their relationships are as complicated as ever. While some of the sisters become entangled with new love interests and others attempt to untangle the romantic webs they are already caught in, the family receives news that their biggest deal was canceled by the city zoning board. Just when it seems like the empire might fall, something worse happens.
After stepmother and family matriarch, Robin, is returned after being kidnapped, the Jones women face their hardest challenges yet to keeping their business and their family intact.
With new husband Webb now deceased, Robin stands to inherit a fortune with a little help from Sheldon, the family’s lawyer. Carrie’s philanthropic endeavors have always taken a backseat to the family’s business ones, but now, with Lance at her side, she plans to expand her role. Kayla is enjoying the single life until she meets Carter whom she quickly falls for, and lest she be overshadowed, Tara begins an affair with her college professor. Pam begins a friendship with Stephen Napoli, the CEO of the construction company building the family’s new water facility and becomes even closer to him when the facility is vandalized. But she has bigger problems when the child whom she gave up for adoption years ago suddenly returns!
Nobody, least of all Pam, is sure about the proper way to handle her long lost daughter Eve, so they ask Sheldon for his counsel. Robin meets with Cam Forest, a duplicitous boat owner who may have witnessed what really happened to Webb in the marina. Meanwhile, the more that Eve is brought into the fold, the more it rankles Tara, who doesn’t believe Eve is who she says she is. But all of this pales in comparison to the biggest shock of all: Webb is alive! And whatever he wants, it can’t be good for the family.
The family is frantic about Webb’s return. Despite the previous tension between Pam and Stephen Napoli, they rekindle their romance in the spirit of working together to uncover Webb’s true intentions. Meanwhile, Tara travels to England to dig into Eve’s background. Carrie and Lance have a very public blow-up, sending Lance right back into the arms of his father, Webb. Or so it appears for now.
William French’s diabolical plan to reunite with Kayla is thwarted. Tara displays her smarts once again when she discovers Eve’s true identity and motive. Webb falls for Lance’s ruse hook, line, and sinker. The family devises a plan to neutralize not just Webb, but all their enemies once and for all, and become even wealthier and more powerful than ever.