During the annual initiation of members into the exclusive Legacy Club, the surprise nomination of Tori Tasso, a scholarship student, jeopardizes the club's clandestine truths and leads to a perilous Legacy Ball where one attendee does not make it out alive.

Membership to the exclusive Legacy Club in New York City gives you a lifetime of access to power and wealth beyond any prep school doors. Legacy Club members always look out for their own-- after you make it through a rigorous week of events and the extravagant gala, the Legacy Ball. Excelsior Prep seniors Bernie Kaplan, Isobel Rothcroft, and Skyler Hawkins are no surprise as nominees: their family pedigrees have assured their membership since birth, even if they're all keeping secrets that could destroy their reputations. But scholarship kid from Queens, Tori Tasso? She's a surprise nominee. So what did she do to secure her place? The night of the Legacy Ball is supposed to be a night of luxury and excess. No one expects their secrets to come out... or for someone to die trying to keep them hidden. -- adapted from jacket