Clearwater University buzzes with thousands of teachers and students, and fresh drama unfolds on campus daily. When one or two dorm residents suddenly vanish or skip out, nobody really bats an eye. Only their roommates and advisors would give a damn about their disappearance.
Over in the sophomore girls' dorm for the history department, an advisor kept trying to reach Faye Parker and Joana Perez, but both their phones were dead. She couldn't get through to their families either. First, she marked them down for cutting class, then passed the problem up to the residential supervisor handling second-year history students.
At the same time, the campus king and queen beauty contest was heating up. Today brought a fierce new competitor into the campus queen race - Patty, the dance department's stunning star.
Her vote count had practically matched the current campus queen, Gaia, overnight.
