17-year-old Channing Hollingsworth should be focused on retaking the SAT, working on college applications, and partying with friends. Instead, he's thrust into a world of danger and violence when someone murders his mother.

And the killer doesn't stop there. The killer stalks Channing and his friends and starts killing them one by one.

If Channing has any hope of escaping alive, he needs to figure out who's targeting them—and why. If he doesn't, the bodies will keep piling up, and his own will be the cherry on top.

But when playing amateur detective and probing into the killings, Channing stumbles into decades-old secrets involving his parents and his friends' parents. No one is completely innocent, and nobody is safe.

Channing's one rock in this unfolding nightmare is the "situationship" that's developed between him and a supposedly-straight friend, Rhys Fitzpatrick. But as the killer narrows in, Channing knows it's only a matter of time before both him and Rhys are the latest bodies stuffed in the morgue.