Black Ice Dormitory

On the surface, Westbrook College is a gleaming liberal arts institution for the elite. But beneath its ivied walls runs a silent pipeline that shuttles impoverished women from the war-torn coasts of the Mediterranean to wealthy buyers in the Americas. When art-history freshman Lena Petros, a scholarship girl from a broken village, discovers that her missing roommate is the latest link in that chain, she steps into a maze of corrupted deans, complicit campus security, and a fraternity that treats human cargo as rush-week currency. Her search for truth becomes a fight for survival—and a brutal lesson that the quad is only a stage where the same predators wear tweed instead of trench coats.