Follows attorney Zelma Jay Johnson. While dealing with mental health issues, a rocky relationship, and a volatile family, she surprises everyone when she wins a judicial seat at the age of 31.

When Shanice learns her friend, June, is missing, she returns home to help in the search. She suspects June's boyfriend, but when June is found dead and Shanice becomes a target, she learns the murderer might be much closer to home.

After struggling to have a child, married lawyers Claire and Zach enlist the help of their friend, Liz to be a surrogate, and she successfully gives birth to baby Owen. But when their surrogate-turned-nanny disappears under mysterious circumstances, the couple struggles to take care of their newborn without any help. Soon thereafter, though, a woman claiming to be the surrogate's childhood nanny offers to be the couple's new nanny. Desperate for help, the couple agrees to hire her, not realizing that their new nanny plans to take their baby for her own family.

Julia, a lonely and ostracized teenager, is coming to terms with the disappearance of her best friend when she discovers a mysterious social media account called 'The Family'.