Life isn't always easy lately for twelve-year-old Allie Carroway in the Louisiana Bayou. Combine her allergies, asthma, and a possible move away from extended family and the family's reality TV show, Carried Away with the Carroways, and Allie has a recipe for potential disaster. On top of everything else is the exciting addition of a new cousin to the group--but Hunter is a twelve-year-old boy! Allie and her cousins, Kendall, Ruby, and Lola, have never allowed a boy to set foot in their treehouse, the "Diva Duck Blind." And if Allie's cousins have any say, they'll keep it that way. So the girl cousins devise a complicated bayou-style initiation for Hunter, as he joins the Carroway family. Can Allie, Hunter, and the rest of the girls overcome swampland obstacles, a blackout, and more to keep their family together?