GCB

This television series is based on the book "Good Christian Bitches". The TV show changed the B to "Belles". The main character has the same name, and she is coming back to Dallas after spending over a decade in California, but that is about where the similarities end. The television show has her husband as deceased, although there is the possibility that he has faked his own death after stealing millions of dollars. In the book, she is leaving him because he is such a cheat. (he is also a cheat in the series) The book has two horrific women, both who happen to be on the poor side of the Dallas elite. The two of them try their hardest to bring Amanda down, for no other reason than that she MIGHT snatch up one of the good men. In the series, the only poor-ish woman is one of the nicest / least bitchy. There are also several sub-plots that do not appear in the book at all. But this all makes perfect sense, as the book did not really leave many loose ends, and of course a television series relies on loose ends.