In the quiet, tree-lined streets of Oak Glen, the homeowners association runs like a tight ship — and Karen Wallace is the captain who answers to no one. For six years she has ruled Oak Glen with an iron fist, a clipboard, and an absolute certainty that her word is law. The color of your concrete, the variety of your roses, the sound of your wind chime — nothing escapes her attention and nothing is ever quite good enough.But something is changing in Oak Glen. The neighbors who once kept their heads down are starting to talk. The board members who once rubber-stamped every decision Karen put in front of them are starting to ask questions. And Karen's husband Robert, a quiet man who kept mostly to himself, has not been seen in quite some time.What begins as the story of one neighborhood's battle against the most insufferable HOA president in suburban history takes a turn that nobody saw coming — not the neighbors who had been watching Karen unravel for weeks, not the police officers who had been called to Oak Glen more times than they could count, and not the one man who had been writing everything down from the beginning and thought he had seen enough to know what kind of story this was.He was wrong.Karen Wallace is about to show Oak Glen exactly what she is capable of, and by the time it is over nothing about this neighborhood, or the woman who tried to control every inch of it, will ever look the same again.Some people take their rules very seriously.Karen Wallace took something else entirely.