Crisis specialist Thea Kozak is called to the campus of an elite New Hampshire private school to help the administration deal with an angry African-American basketball player who claims she's being stalked. There is nothing warm and fuzzy about the complainant. Shondra Jones is a six foot three, tightly coiled bundle of rage and resentment. She's also sixteen, scared, and far from home. Beneath the school's genteel veneer, Thea finds that a secret group of well-connected students flouts rules and abuses fellow students with impunity.