Aged 19 and fresh from small town Gretchenville, Pandora English arrives in New York City to live with her mysterious Great Aunt Celia. Pandora is going to make it big as a writer ...or so she thinks. It turns out her great aunt is not the geriatric she is expecting. Celia is elegant, cool, and unnaturally beautiful. The suburb she lives in - Spektor - is a bit odd, too, surrounded by a weird fog and inhabited by some unusual residents. Smart, pretty and eager to shake her small town roots, Pandora soon finds plenty of admirers in Manhattan, including the good-looking, rich and charming Jay Rockwell, and the handsome soldier Lieutenant Luke Thomas, who is protective, committed, and dead. (Well, no one's perfect.) When Pandora lands a job at a glossy women's magazine that happens to share her name, her first assignment is covering the exciting A-List launch of BloodofYouth, the latest miracle beauty product to take America by storm. Supermodel Athanasia, the face of BloodofYouth, is drop-dead gorgeous, but Pandora senses something else too. Something sinister ...It seems there may be a secret ingredient in BloodofYouth, and when Pandora discovers what it is, there'll be hell to pay.