Ivy, Mateo, and Cal used to be close. Now, all they have in common is Carlton High, and the beginning of a very bad day. Type A Ivy lost a student council election to the class clown, and now she has to face the school, humiliated. Heartthrob Mateo is burned out—he's been working two jobs since his family's business failed. And outsider Cal's sort-of new girlfriend just stood him up . . . again. So, when Cal pulls into campus late for class and runs into Ivy and Mateo, it seems like the perfect opportunity to turn a bad day around. They'll ditch and go into the city. Just the three of them, like old times. Except, they've barely left the parking lot before running out of things to say. At least, they don't until they spot another Carlton High student skipping school—and follow him to his own murder scene. In one chance move, their day turns from dull to deadly. And it's about to get worse. It turns out Ivy, Mateo, and Cal still have some things in common. They all have a connection to the dead kid. And they're all hiding something. Now they're all wondering—could it be that their chance reconnection wasn't by chance after all?