Poor Alex. She thought she would have some fun, take a chance, maybe fool around a little. Instead she's lying dead in her own blood, cut open like a slaughtered animal. But the worst is still to come. Her tender young flesh will soon be used in an unspeakable act, an unholy ritual that few sane people could even believe. Alex was not the first, nor will she be the last. Not as long as Vanessa is alive?and she plans to be alive forever. Vanessa's unnatural life has become a search for victims, virgins to satisfy her body's need for eternal youth. But Vanessa doesn't know that there are things in the world more powerful, more terrifying than even herself ...