Southern transplant Emma Lovett and her best friend, Leslie Parker, can hardly believe it's Emma's third year at Thomas Jefferson High School. In addition to an amazing year with Emma's boyfriend, Hunter Wells, and Leslie's brand-new love interest, they've gotten all the way through Homecoming with no one dying.

Oops!

At the end of October, Emma discovers the strangled body of Charlie Foreman, one of Leslie's favorite nemeses. But the first clue implicates Leslie in the crime. To make things worse, Emma's feeling a little oogy. She's tired and dizzy and something's wrong with her eyes.

All Emma and Leslie are trying to do is find new methods for teaching the youth of America, hopefully using lessons from the Great Bard, their hero, William Shakespeare.

But someone has a different idea: more schooling in murder.