Reed is elected the new leader of Billings Hall, but her grip on the social scene is tenuous, as she discovers when Easton is the only prep school not invited to a Legacy party and it falls to her to get them back on the list. She realizes she has everything she wanted, but everything to lose, and the legacy of Billings leaders before her - one institutionalized, one expelled, one dead - make her wonder if history will repeat itself and be unkind to her.