Hostel 7 has a reputation before Leah even unpacks her suitcase.On her first night, a folded printout finds its way into her hands: THE HOSTEL 7 SCANDAL LIST - names, rankings, rumours, and secrets about the students, the lecturers, and the staff who run Kitale University. Nobody will say who writes it. Everybody is on it, or afraid they will be.By the second night, the power has gone out, a note has been slid under a door, and an unknown number is texting Leah as if it has been waiting for her all along.What begins as freshman-week gossip becomes something else entirely: a fire nobody will explain, a lecturer with a past he'll do anything to bury, and a family history that was supposed to stay buried with him. As Leah pulls at one thread after another, she finds her own name already written into a story that started before she was born - one that reaches from a hostel corridor in Kitale to a network built to survive a corruption scandal two decades old, and to a sister she never knew she had.Everyone at Hostel 7 is pretending. Nobody is innocent. And the only way out is straight through the truth.A fast-moving campus thriller about the secrets institutions keep, the family debts nobody warns you about, and one first-year determined to find out exactly what she walked into.