When Reece University’s top biochemistry scholar winds up stone cold dead in the academic quad in a knockoff Vera Wang ball gown, the Reece community is shaken like a Texas-tini, and “The Harvard of the South” will never be the same again.
When a connection surfaces between the victim and the Grants Office, quirky grants coordinator Unity Lockhart can’t look away from the freak show. She puts on her pre-loved gumshoes and hooks up with rookie campus cop Dirk Duffy in the quest to nab the killer.
Unity tangles with the richest oil baron in Texas, escapes the Texas Mafia, and struggles to get over her ex as she sniffs out clues, clocks suspects, and concocts murder theories. In the meantime, it’s going to take a double dose of anti-anxiety meds to survive her evangelical housemates and their scheme to climb the social ladder in Houston’s inner loop and breed with the one percenters. Can Unity keep her sanity long enough to ride shotgun in Dirk’s undercover San Mateo red pimp-mobile and crack the case before she becomes the next college campus crime stat?
