For Paige Moore, a freshman at Kew College, everything begins the night she witnesses a robbery in a small New England town. When she reports the break-in, Paige becomes the lone eyewitness to an epic caper. And that's when things turn weird.Paige had never heard of the early American architect H.H. Richardson or Harvard's secret Porcellian Club, but she is soon drawn into secret societies and a hundred-year-old architectural mystery, realizing that there is more to this sleepy town and its 19th century architecture than anyone could imagine.Paige enlists her college friends to help her solve these mysteries: Melissa and Jill, fashionable gold-digging roommates, and Sheila, a dance-your-pants-off free spirit. Meanwhile, Paige meets her Harvard dream-guy, Stoph, who works nights as a mashup maestro DJ, but is he too good to be true? The Eye in the Ceiling is a deft, propulsive and hilarious thriller that penetrates the secrets of the old New England village known as Shovel Town.