High on a hillside overlooking Salem University sits Nightingale Hall. Nightmare Hall, the students call it. Because that's where the terror began...

When Katie's boyfriend is killed in a canoeing accident, she know nothing will ever be the same again. And she can't stop wondering - could she have prevented his death? Was it her fault?

She doesn't know that someone else has already reached a decision about the accident. Katie's guilty. And her punishment should be death...