After working all summer at her family’s small Italian restaurant, Eleonora Cortes is ready for a change. But her protective parents only let her go if she swears to stay away from three things: frat boys, love and drugs. At least until she gets her bio degree at world-renowned St. Brendan’s University.

 

With a scholarship and the best joint roller Renny Yang by her side, Nora’s swindled into rushing the top sorority to appease her best friend, all the while dodging a curly haired, tattooed charmer who’s the king of entitlement—and exactly who she promised to avoid. Especially when his mother is an ex-OC housewife and his father owns the modern building her papá dreams to destroy.

 

Nora struggles to come to terms with the extravagant lives of her peers, vapid conversations, and a budding attraction towards Josiah de Sade, the tattooed player and St. Brendan soccer star whose complicated past with a sorority sister clashes with her need to assimilate, and protect her heart. With mansions, yachts and pristine beaches for backyards, nothing bad ever happens in Orange County. So when a body is found in a burning car near campus, Nora’s forced to take a closer look at St. Brendan’s catered parties and social niceties, finding a darker truth in the glittering wealth and a maddening frat boy at the center of it all. All her studies couldn’t prepare her for the money, lies and addictions flowing beneath the surface, and something growing in her bitter heart that might just be the thing to sink her.