You need at least two illicit love affairs. One with a spolied, home wrecking, adulterous, raven haied vixen. An addled grandparent locked up in the attic or basement. A Family Secret (Dad is a Conservative living in a Liberal Community, or vice versa) And two young people falling in love, preferably a male and a female.
Should sell pretty well, Texan.
Jack.
There is a surfeit of those elements here, especially the adultery-I have neighbors who are into wife swapping and nude dancing/swimming parties. Up the road lives a lesbian couple, one of whom works with hubby in the city, another neighbor up the road is known as "the loon" whom you have, I'm sure heard me mention before-she is truly nuts, picks up men in bars, gets arrested for public brawling and drunkeness and is an embarrassment to her teenaged son-and the fanciest house on the road belongs to one of the only liberals in the community-and they never get invited to road parties any more because the wife outed them two years ago on the Fourth of July. And that is just on the road we live on...
Don't you need a murder or suicide in there, too?