In addition to being a gifted student, Jacob Magitsoh is self-involved, developing alcoholic. When he pledges a typical New England university fraternity, he discovers that the organization-created for social interactions and networking opportunities-is also implicated in possible murders and disappearances.
The mystery deepens when it becomes clear that the fraternity is connected to a drug trafficking ring linked to bosses somewhere "down South". An older fraternity brother offers only a glimpse into to what is happening under the surface of the seemingly haunted fraternity house. Jacob is powerfully drawn to his fraternity brother's girlfriend and falls in love-only to be betrayed. All the while Jacob ignores the one person who cares enough to save him.