Overview

A sapphic friends to lovers college romance murder mystery about grief, guilt, love and togetherness.

Everyone can agree that college can be a drag sometimes. Studying for finals, work study positions to help pay for tuition, not to mention the dreaded group project. Sophia Briggs has all of that, plus living with her ex-girlfriend in their shared dorm room to deal with. The worst part is that she’s still painfully in love with her. Luz Marcellus is athletic, caring, and attentive. That makes it all the more painful when Sophia walks in on her with another woman.

Well, Madeline Moore isn’t having any of it. She and Sophia have been best friends since forever, so she decides to step in and give Luz a piece of her mind! The problem is, now that Sophia and Luz have broken up, Madeline starts to notice how toned Luz is. The way her bixie cut hangs just slightly in front of her face. The way her voice gets a half-step lower whenever they’re around each other. Then again, why does she care? Madeline has been straight all her life, and there’s no way that would change now, right?

But will any of these worries matter when the dark undertones of Scribe University crash through the barriers of what this group of friends thought the real world was? How could stressful tests and complicated love lives ever prepare them to properly handle kidnappings, assaults, and murders on the campus that they once thought of as home? The simple answer is—they don’t. Especially not when Luz is the prime suspect and the clock is ticking down on the time that's left to prove her innocence.

The most important lesson is one they’ll have to learn outside the classroom. When you feel like the world has stopped and nothing makes sense anymore, the only way you can ever get through it… is together.