A sheltered young high society woman joins the army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.

Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry…

This morning they were playing ping-pong in the hospital rec room. Now they’re lost in New York and framed for murder. This was never covered in group therapy.

Vada Sultenfuss has a holiday coming up, and an assignment: to do and essay on someone she admires and has never met. She decides she wants to do an assignment…