The competitive selection process for a prized college scholarship turns deadly in the latest thriller from USA Today bestselling author David Bell.

It's selection day at Hyde College-six students gather in Hyde House, which is locked for eight hours, in hopes of winning the prestigious Hyde Fellowship for their senior year. Troy Gaines is the college administrator overseeing the process. He also needs to meet with Nicholas Hyde, an unpredictable wealthy playboy and sole remaining heir of Hyde College's founder as the college desperately needs a larger donation to survive.



When the presumed frontrunning student dies mysteriously, Troy wants to postpone the process, but the benefactor Nicholas, citing the rigid Hyde family bylaws, insists they must continue or his family's scholarship will no longer exist for future students. This is a tradition that rewards one student every year-no matter what. But when someone else turns up dead, the remaining students and Troy worry someone is picking them off one by one.



With a student protest raging outside, and everyone trapped in Hyde House, the students start to turn against each another, and Troy will have to find a way out before someone else dies.

Story Locale: Small town Kentucky