Who would kill a Latin professor and cut her heart out? A jealous colleague? A union-busting dean? Or a student, driven to violence by the treacheries of Latin syntax? Linnea Nil wakes up dead one day and discovers that, on the basis of her academic credentials, she's been assigned to Hades. She seeks the help of the poet Vergil and learns that her missing heart may be her ticket to redemption—unless the goon squad from Hades reaches her first. Dori Amore is reeling after her best friend's murder. But she's even more taken aback when the dead professor asks Dori to track down the missing heart. Can the heart put her friend's soul to rest? Does the task put Dori herself in mortal danger? And can she get something going with the cute guy who works at the morgue? Jan Underwood's funny second novel is a murder mystery, a satire on the high cost of college, a work of magic realism and a love song to the Romance languages. "A delicious romp through academia and the Classics." — Jill Kelly, author of The Color of Longing "What a horrid world these folks are living in, but how delightfully quirky they are all. Fabulous plotting! What a satisfying read! — Theresa Martin, author of Round Earth, Flat Earth