Fourteen-year-old Parker Baer is a spoiled, bored, rich kid who is fascinated by the new girl next door, Tara. Tara quickly becomes the person to know at school, but those she takes an interest in fall ill with a strange sickness: their skin and eyes go gray, a notable lethargy takes over, and their limbs turn to stone. Readers will quickly figure out that Tara is actually Medusa and that she has decided to give Parker a Gorgon's gifts. The real question is, will Parker resist?