Grieving widow Mariana arrives at a British university to comfort her niece after a classmate has been murdered on campus. When she learns that the victim was part of a group known as the Maidens, beautiful favorite students of Greek tragedy professor Edward Fosca, Mariana feels compelled to use her training in group psychotherapy to help solve the case…especially when another Maiden winds up dead. Interwoven with Greek mythology, this brooding, intelligent thriller is as suspenseful as they come, with a jaw-dropping twist you won't see coming!