Tom Mason, Chicago area high school teacher, has been teaching at Grover Cleveland High School for a while - long enough to loathe the faculty meetings and long enough to know that as bad as they are, they aren't fatal. Usually. Having had all he can take of the endless bickering and petty disputes, he sneaks out of the meeting for a short break only to find the room empty when he returns, the usual suspects having departed to the four winds. Thinking nothing of it and heading to the stock room, he stumbles upon a trysting couple in the dark and, once the light is turned on, the dead body of one of his colleagues who stormed out of the faculty meeting earlier.Having disappeared from the meeting at roughly the same time, Tom now finds himself in the unwelcome position of prime suspect. With the help of his husband, former baseball player Scott Carpenter, he'll have to figure out who the killer is before the crime is pinned on him.