The unsolved kidnapping and triple murder that rocked Ellingham Academy in 1936 haunted Stevie Bell for years. It was the desire to unravel this terrible incident from the past that made Stevie enter the academy. But then her classmate was killed within the school walls, and the alarmed parents took their daughter home.

Stevie is ready to do anything to return to the academy, meet her friends again and solve the “Ellingham case.” Even if this means making a deal with the politician she hates, Edward King, the father of the guy Stevie dated at the academy. And who broke her heart.

The closer Stevie gets to unraveling the mysteries of the past and present, the more confusing and dangerous her investigation becomes. But will this stop a girl obsessed with the Ellingham case?