The brutal murder of a Harvard senior and rumors about a charismatic instructor haunt the lives of three graduates over the course of a decade-long search for answers.

Nickie Callahan is full of optimism when she moves to the sleepy college town of Knolls, Tennessee, to live with her best friend Mimi. At twenty-seven, her career as a New York City model may be over, but she plans to go back to college and become a writer. She hopes that Mimi, who works at Houghton College, can use her influence to get her a last-minute enrollment. Nickie's looking forward to using her brain after years of using her looks to make...

College student Joe Talbert has to interview a stranger and write a brief biography for an English class. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, a dying Vietnam veteran--and a convicted murderer on medical parole. Unable to reconcile the heroism of the soldier with the despicable acts of the convict, Joe--with the help of Lila, his skeptical neighbor--throws himself into uncovering...

When award-winning journalist Caitlin Bergman is invited back to campus to receive an honorary degree, she finds an opportunity for a well-earned victory lap--and a chance to face the trauma that almost destroyed her as an undergrad. But her lap becomes an all-out race when a student begs her to probe an unsolved campus disappearance: Angela Chapman went out one Friday night and never came back. To find the missing woman, Caitlin must join forces...

Kathi Ellison is an English literature major at the University of California in Berkeley, living with her boyfriend off-campus. She is also the daughter of a candidate for the U.S. Senate and his wife, a role that could affect her life should her father win the election. But before she can consider her future, Kathi must first come to terms with her past. A car accident when she was four-years-old killed her mother and left her in a coma for several...

Attorney Barbara Holloway defends controversial author and scholar David Etheridge, who is accused of murdering a state senator and a young coed who was the subject of a cold case investigation some twenty years ago at the University of Oregon.

Ethan Langley is home for the summer, eager to renew his friendship with Vanessa Jessup and her infant son, Carter. Before Ethan is even settled, a series of random shootings leaves someone he loves dead. While police are scrambling for suspects, Ethan learns shocking details that could break the case. But it imperils the lives of those he's come to love. Will he make the right call?

"Flora Dane is a victim. Seven years ago, carefree college student Flora was kidnapped while on spring break. For 472 days, Flora learned just how much one person can endure. Flora Dane is a survivor. Miraculously alive after her ordeal, Flora has spent the past five years reacquainting herself with the rhythms of normal life, working with her FBI victim advocate, Samuel Keynes. She has a mother who's never stopped loving her, a brother who is scared...

When private detective Dana Cutler is hired by an attorney with powerful political connections, the assignment seems simple enough: follow a pretty college student named Charlotte Walsh and report on where she goes and whom she sees. But then the unexpected happens. One night, Cutler follows Walsh to a secret meeting with Christopher Farrington, the president of the United States. The following morning, Walsh's dead body shows up and Cutler has to...

Forensics expert Maggie Gardiner is swept up in a dangerous web of lies when detective Jack Renner's investigation into a university student's death violently converges with a suspicious overdose case being overseen by Maggie's homicide detective ex.