Payton family

The Payton family are a fictional family in the novel series, House of Payton. The family have been involved in a number of the series' most high-profile storylines, most notably Kimberly Payton's on-going relationship with Carter Chadway and affair with Craig Dean Cameron, who was much older than her; Tara Payton's (Claire Cooper) whirlwind relationship with Tony Hutchinson (Nick Pickard); a student's shooting at Hoover High that trapped Kimberly and Kristen; Julie Payton's affair with -; Kimberly being stalked by a fan; Kimberly coping with Dean's death, learning that he had been having an affair with - and that he got - pregnant; India taunting Kimberly and stabbing herself and framing her; Ashley's on-going war with her evil father; Kristen's rape at the hands of her teacher; a whodunit involving the hit & run car accident which ultimately killed Amanda; Tara's dating abuse at the hands of boyfriend, Travis Morgan; Kimberly's being pregnant with Dean's baby and miscarrying the child due to a house burglary; Ashley learning that her evil father isn't her biological father; revealed as his biological father; Michelle Payton and Luke Costello's underage wedding, and India being incarcerated for attempting to kill Kimberly.