Greer's roommate, Brooke, is missing. A threatening phone message implies that she may be in terrible trouble. When handsome law student and the super's son, Salvador, learns about the strange incidents, he determines to keep Greer safe at all costs. A body turns up outside the small University town where Greer and Brooke both grew up. It quickly becomes clear that the town is not a picture of academic bliss. It seems that more people have motives for silencing Brooke than there are people to miss her. As Greer uncovers this tangled web of deception and university politics, she not only has to speculate on Brooke's choices of relationships, but on many of her own. While Greer and Salvador search out the truth, Greer's mother busily pushes the two of them together.

And it's working; they are growing ever closer. But will Salvador be able to keep Greer safe from the murderer?.