Ten years ago, Faye and Lydia each opened their own bakeries in Emeryville, Ohio, after a personal and professional fall-out during a local pumpkin pie contest. Now their children, and co-workers, Casey and Sam are set to carry on the rivalry as they go head-to-head in the same contest. There is only one problem from these two people who are supposed to hate each other, they start to fall in love.

Hearst College, jewel of the Pacific is a citadel of higher education set amid rolling lawns and swaying palms. But since hearst is in Neptune, California--and since Veronica Mars is among its incoming freshmen--it's also a noir netherworld of lies, betrayal, secrets and (of course) murder.