While a lonely freshman at Vassar College, Dana meets Japanese student Kako Sumikai, a young woman burdened by a lifetime of misery. Dana soon learns that Kako’s secret relationship with beautiful sorority queen Karen Peterson is touched by domestic violence and sexual abuse, with private incidents that rise to the level of rape. As her bond with Kako deepens, Dana learns the truth about how some young women are initiated into the largest sorority on campus, while coming to terms with her end of the world calling, and the truth that runs hot through her blood—passed down to her from a line of the deadliest women in the history of mankind.