At this point in the popular drama series about girls at a prestigious East Coast girls' boarding school, Nina was still in the process of adjusting after coming forward about Dr. Spencer's inappropriate activities and his resulting termination from Waverly after more students came forward with their accounts. With this in mind, when a freshman student named Becca commits suicide, there are plenty of theories regarding why; it is Nina, however, who has her own suspicions surrounding the school that go deeper than her friends', with help from Logan; together Nina and Logan begin their own private investigation and find new, and dangerous, levels of corruption at every turn that implicate more than one individual on staff and that ultimately puts Nina -- the investigator herself -- directly into the line of fire.