NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD JULIE NORWOOD IS ALREADY GRIEVING and hallucinating and lost in her own bad dreams, when she discovers letters nearly 200 years old hidden in a beautifully carved rosewood box. Letters written to Mary Shelley and signed, Your Demon.The letters will pull Julie out toward the deepest unknown seas of herself, far from the shore of all she knows, tempting her to follow the paper trail in search of the miraculous Immortal Being. Because now she's not only drawn to the stunning mystery of the Demon. Since meeting Griff Digger, the maverick Director of the Hall of Tribal People at the Museum of Natural History, now she's running away from love and desire.