Dorian Gray is obsessed with staying young and beautiful, an endeavor that grows out of control when he obtains a portrait that takes the marks of age and sin from his physical body

Minerva grew up on tales of the paranormal from her Nana Alba, but she never really BELIEVED those stories. But while researching Beatrice Tremblay, a obscure horror novelist, for her dissertation, Minerva begins to believe that those stories were more substantial than she thought.