Caterer and small-town minister's wife Faith Fairchild might never have
accepted the job teaching a course on Cooking for Idiots at Mansfield
Academy had it not been for Daryl Martin. An African-American student at
the prestigious prep school, Daryl has lately become the target of a
series of vicious and anonymous racial attacks -- and Faith is
determined to put an end to the injustice. But Mansfield, she finds, is
a seething cauldron of secrets, academic in-fighting, and unspoken rules
that complicate her task. When someone tampers with her classroom
cooking ingredients -- and then the remains of her prime suspect are
discovered smoldering in a campus bonfire -- she realizes that a
monstrous evil is stalking both Daryl and the school. And suddenly
Faith's own life is in serious jeopardy as well!