Grace Haddonfield is a four-star chef with a bitter past. At 14, Grace
finds herself at odds with her controlling mother who has her kidnapped
in the middle of the night and taken to a boarding school for troubled
teens. Grace spends several months at Epiphany Lake Academy where she
must rise through the ranks of a cult-like program. When she realizes
that the program has set her up to fail, she attempts to escape from
Epiphany Lake and winds up somewhere even worse: Mystic Bay, a
barbed-wire facility in the Dominican Republic. Grace's defiance against
her captors lands her in solitary confinement, where she gets through
the long hours by indulging in vivid fantasies about food.
As an adult, Grace is successful but lonely and struggles to reconcile
her triumphs with the injustices she has endured. When she meets a woman
named Jess in a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu class, she has the chance to make
the kind of connection that's been missing from her life. Tough Love at
Mystic Bay follows Grace as she unlearns harsh lessons and rediscovers
friendship.