It's the first day of the winter semester at New York College, and assistant dorm director Heather Wells has a lot more to worry about than roommate conflicts. One of the college cheerleaders has lost her head - literally - in the cafeteria, and no one can find the rest of her. With the dorm's entire population under suspicion for murder, it doesn't look like anyone on campus, least of all Heather, is going to have a good semester. She's got a decapitated cheerleader to deal with, as well as enough guy problems to make a normal girl seek shelter in a convent. With her ex insisting she attend his wedding, the Celebrity Wedding of the Decade, her incompetent new boss freaking out, her ex-con father showing up on her doorstep, and the love of her life still no closer to realizing she's the girl of his dreams, it's no wonder Heather prefers questioning suspects to dealing with her personal life.

But when the murder trail leads her to the door of one of the college's о oldest and wealthiest fraternities, Heather finds that initiation rites have been taken to a whole new level…