Susan Hogan is smart, pretty-and prickly-with those who love her, prickly with her academic colleagues in the English department at Oak Grove University. When a coed's body is found in her car and she is suspected of murder, Susan gets even more defensive.

But when someone begins to stalk and threaten her, prickly mixes with fear. Susan must find the killer to save her reputation-and her life. What she suspects she's found on a quiet campus in Texas is so bizarre no one believes her. Until she's almost killed.

The death of one coed unravels a tale of greed, lust, and obsession.