As Cleo heads off for college at the local art school, she's haunted by her melancholic past - a lost love, a lost child. Friends and enemies live their lives around her, as trouble brews - an unseen social assailant is spreading slander about Cleo. But Cleo is otherwise occupied by her two roommates and the unsolved mystery of their room's last occupant. A book about goths, friendship, sex, betrayal, gossip, murder, guilt, a squirrel monkey, and all the terrible and wonderful things people do to each other.
