Aurora Morse is an isolated creature, a Nymph requiring sex for sustenance, living with little knowledge of who or what she is. She works as a whore in Newark to satisfy her cravings and fill her wallet. When a rendezvous with a regular goes bad, Aurora learns that her name is well known in an underworld she didn't know existed. Fighting the desire to use her shape-shifting abilities to disappear, she sets out to discover who she is and why someone wants her dead.