Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to study medicine--but when that scholarship falls through...

In the spring of her senior year, psychic sleuth Daisy Giordano worries about getting into a college near her boyfriend Ryan, but must also investigate and try to resolve a conflict between vampires and shapeshifters that threatens to cancel prom.