As the star player of Dartmouth College’s women’s basketball team, Kristina Kim is beautiful, intelligent, and fearless. Though she’s just twenty-one, Kristina has already had her share of heartache and dark secrets that haunt her. She’s best friends with Conni,  Albert, and Jim, but only Albert seems to really know her. With long, dark hair, tattoos, and a rebellious streak, Albert doesn’t fit in with the rest of the clean-cut Ivy Leaguers. Like Kristina, he has his share of secrets—secrets that are beginning to unravel their intimate circle of friends.

When Detective Spencer O’Malley goes to investigate something suspicious at the foot of a steep hill on Dartmouth’s campus, he doesn’t expect that the frozen, naked body found deep in the snow would belong to Kristina Kim—the remarkable young woman he met recently who entranced him. Now Spencer will never know if the chemistry he had with her was real. All he can do is find her killer.

Spencer is pulled into the strange, complex web of the surviving friends. The more he digs, the more clear it becomes that each of the three has a motive for killing Kristina. And as Spencer is led down a labyrinth of deceit, every new revelation proves more shocking than the last . . . and more dangerous.