Shepard (Everything We Ever Wanted, 2011, etc.), the architect of the best-selling Pretty Little Liars series, has created a PLL for adults. But the family curseor a vindictive villainmay end their lives prematurely. The network also aired a series adaptation of Shepard’s The Lying Game and now is piloting The Perfectionists as a PLL spinoff. Five privileged young woman, all heiresses to the Saybrook diamond empire, are blessed with every luxury. Pretty Little Liars became a mega hit for ABC Family/Freeform. The Heiresses, which previously had been in series development at Bravo, marks the latest Shepard YA property headed to TV. In addition to PLL: The Perfectionists, King has series Famous in Love starring Bella Thorne at Freeform. In addition to You, she next will be seen in the feature Cadaver. The Heiresses: A Novel Author (s): Sara Shepard Release Date: JPublisher/Imprint: Harper Collins Pages: 320 Buy on Amazon Reviewed by: Janet Levine The Heiresses by Sara Shepard is badbad, bad, bad, about as bad as any novel I’ve ever not read beyond the first two or three pages. Mitchell also was cast as a series regular for the first season of the studio’s upcoming Lifetime series You. The only thing more flawless than a Saybrook’s. The project falls under the talent holding pact Mitchell inked with Warner Bros TV in August along with a pod deal for her newly launched production company Amore & Vita Productions. From Sara Shepard, the 1 New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Little Liars and Reputation, comes The Heiressesa novel about the Saybrooks, a diamond family blessed with beauty and fortune yet plagued by a string of tragic and mysterious deaths. King executive produces with Alloy’s Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo.

They set out to solve the mystery of who wants the Saybrook family dead before one of them is the next target. But when an unspeakable tragedy brings the cousins back together, they create a truly unbreakable bond. The events surrounding a deadly accident a year ago drove a wedge between the once-inseparable diamond empire heiresses. They’ve been blessed with great fortune but cursed with epic loss.

The Heiresses is a family soap with a mystery twist, set in the diamond world. ABC has given a put pilot commitment to The Heiresses, headlined by PLL co-star Shay Mitchell, with King writing based on Shepard’s 2014 novel. Alloy Entertainment once again co-produces with King’s Long Lake Media in association with Warner Bros.