When journalist and traveler Lee Smith receives a text saying "Someone tried to kill me," she at first thinks her best friend Jack Hughes is just complaining about someone running him over in a car. Except the car didn't run over him, it hit him, leaving Jack in the hospital with a dislocated shoulder and several broken bones, and he's certain that the attack is connected to the mysterious death of a young girl at a Berkshire boarding school. Jack, being her sponsor and a board member, wanted to investigate the unfortunate incident and now asks Lee to do the same. She doesn't want to get involved in the whole thing at all. She and Jack met at that school, but she doesn't remember the period of her studies very fondly, because she was a victim of bullying. And the dead girl is also the daughter of her chief tormentor. It's just that best friends don't reject each other...