Rush Statement: When I came to NAU, I was homesick. I have a little sister I love and miss so much that I thought about dropping out and going back home. Instead, I found Sigma Rho and knew as soon as I stepped in the front door that this was my place. The support and love from girls I just met sustains me and helps me overcome missing my own family. Now I have a house full of sisters, and I could not be happier. I hope to help create an atmosphere of volunteerism and community service, for the campus and our community at large. The future has never looked so bright and shiny, and I look forward to what it holds for both me and all my sorority sisters.

She sounded so happy, Lucas thought. But then as a senior...she sounded just like he felt, pessimistic. Aren’t you supposed to be happy, the world-is-your-oyster type of happy, when you’re on the verge of graduating from college with a degree in the field you love?

NAU Accomplishments: Volunteering and community involvement, including building homes for homeless veterans; working at Sunrise Center homeless shelter; reading to pediatric cancer patients; creating and maintaining the Greek Life Food Drive that last Thanksgiving bought four hundred and twenty turkeys for struggling families.

What do you plan to do when you leave NAU? Since I was little, I have wanted to be a nurse and take care of people. I have always wanted to give back, to help people, to do something more for my community, so I volunteered each academic break and summer to aid those who needed a helping hand. I want to continue a life of service.

What advice can you offer the incoming rush women? Trust yourself and don’t let anyone make you feel less.

Senior Quote: “The future influences the present just as much as the past.” * Friedrich Nietzsche

Odd quote, he thought.

Odd, and he feared he might have had something to do with Candace’s negativity. He hoped not, but he couldn’t help but think about his last conversation with her, and his suspicion about why she no longer wanted to tutor him.

He put Candace aside and turned to Taylor James. He looked at the photo of Taylor from first year and mentally juxtaposed that image with how he had found her, dead of a drug overdose. A pang of guilt overwhelmed him. He couldn’t help but think that he’d had something to do with her death. That because he was pushing the investigation into Candace’s murder, Taylor had gone back to using drugs.

Stop it, he told himself. Regan had reminded him that it was Taylor’s choice, which he understood intellectually, and he couldn’t figure out what he could have done different. But his heart hurt.

He believed that she knew more about Candace’s disappearance than she’d told anyone.

Could she have killed her?