There's more than cherished memories waiting for literature professor and sometime-detective Kate Fansler when she returns to the Theban, an exclusive preparatory school on Manhattan's Upper East Side for wealthy New York girls, to teach a seminar on Antigone. Because hidden behind the century-old doors of the Theban's hallowed halls lurks a real-life tragedy of ancient Greek proportions-and a parallel nightmare with a life all its own that's destined to envelop Kate's alma mater and everyone connected with it.