Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this innovative page-turner follows a group of students in an art masters program that goes dangerously awry, from the internationally bestselling new queen of crime (Electric Literature) Janice Hallett.

University professor Gela Nathaniel must make her new masters program in multimedia art succeed. If it doesnt, then Royal Hastings University will cut her funding and shell be out of the job she loves. The six students in this inaugural course will be key to that successbut how well has she selected the team?

The students include a talented young sculptor who is determined to graduate with top grades, a former gallery owner with limited artistic skills, a single mother more interested in a paycheck than homework, a people pleaser who struggles with technology, a marketing executive suffering from burnout, and a successful artist who seems rather overqualified for the program.

At the end of the academic year, when the examiner arrives to grade the students final project, he finds himself asking what happened. Because if someone in that course isnt in mortal danger, then they are already dead. But who, and why?

He wants us to read through the students coursework, texts, message boards, and final essays to see if we can find the answers. Only one thing is certain: nothing about this course has been left to chance, and each of these students has their own very different agenda.