Pandora English is no ordinary small town orphan. When she's invited to live with her mysterious Great-Aunt Celia in New York City she seizes the opportunity to escape her stifling hometown break from her tragic past and make it as a writer. Things however are not what she is expecting. For starters her great-aunt's gothic mansion is in a mist-wreathed Manhattan suburb that doesn't appear on maps. And then there's Celia herself - a former designer to the stars of Hollywood's Golden Age - who is elegant unnaturally young and always wearing a veil. Pandora lands a job at a fashion magazine and her first assignment is covering the A-list launch of the latest miracle cream BloodofYouth. But something is not right about the product nor Athanasia the drop-dead beautiful face of the brand. It seems there may be a secret ingredient in BloodofYouth a secret worth killing for...