Sophie Rivers finds that her struggles with her course take a back seat when she's caught up in a deadly web of corruption and murder.
Sophie Rivers is struggling with her course at the University of the West Midlands, her fellow student Jago Calvin is harassing her and she's missing the love-of-her-life, Mike Lowden. Sophie confides in the excellent lecturer Carla Pentowski about her problems. But there's something strange about Carla's past – or lack of it.
Sophie soon has a number of questions. Why are some of the South-East Asian students she is helping behaving oddly? Why are Malay girls dying on her old friend, Superintendent Chris Groom's patch? What's behind Carla disappearance, and who has hacked into the university's records? Sophie's determined to find answers, but finds herself risking her life in her search for the truth.|Sophie Rivers has started an MEd at the University of West Midlands and finds herself wrapped up in another mystery. Who has hacked into the university's records? Who lies at the centre of corruption Sophie uncovers? She's on the case - and the nearer she gets to the truth the more unlikely it seems she'll escape alive...