Apparently, when things are going well, no one bothers to dig deep into the events. In marriages, the couples are usually not having a good time with each other and still they pose a good picture in front of society. This helps them keep going in life and it works too without any doubt.
Similarly, different things happen in schools and the students along with the administration prefer to keep it buried to make things smooth. Danielle Steel talks about such a situation in this novel and this makes it a more important novel than The Whittiers and Without a Trace. The name of the institute that Dan John Miller narrates about is Saint Ambrose Prep.
This is the institute where the children of the rich and influential people of the town come to study. After the completion of their studies, they become powerful men themselves. For many years the institute has been teaching boys only and for the first time, the school gives admission to 140 female students. The school keeps on functioning in the same way after that and during a function something bad happens this time.
A girl is found after the party who has been poisoned through alcohol. This issue goes to the police at once and the students who were close to the girl are also called for an investigation. The rich people at once start hiring attorneys for their children because they don’t want their kids to be interrogated again and again. Thus the novel brings out certain hidden aspects of society through this story. This kind of novel really works like an eye-opener for everyone listening to it closely.