"Rule #66: During Pledge Week, pledges are required to wear a fresh white carnation at all times.

The slightest evidence of pink in the carnation will result in points subtracted.

Carnations must be purchased daily. If even minor wilting is in evidence as the day progresses, the pledge is strongly advised to replace it immediately." Cindy Baxby, loser extraordinaire, is determined to fight her way into Alpha Beta Delta, her mother's old sorority.

Amazingly she survives the demanding and extensive initiation rituals, and is thrilled to feel part of such an exclusive gang.

But slowly she discovers that Meri Sugarman, the current president, is rather a strange cookie; bent on controlling not only the sorority house, but also the college, the town, and as far as her surveillance tapes will reach.

Something is very, very wrong. Cindy risks her newfound popularity to do the impossible: bring Meri down.