On a single night time, five children all of a sudden vanish off their homes in Paris, Glasgow, Rome, and London. Years afterwards, five enigmatic teens make an extraordinary entrance at an exclusive New York holiday party using their unusual but gorgeous governess, Madame Vileroy. Rumor and intrigue follow the Faust kids to the top notch Manhattan Marlowe College, where their very existence brings unexplainable misfortune. Using “gifts” given to them by Madame Vileroy, these strange teenagers rise to about Another Faust suspicious heights at Marlowe. Though initially their abilities appear almost childlike within their simplicity, they soon learn that their newfound talents for cheating, stealing, concealing, and lying are more potent than that they had ever imagined – and far more addictive. Ignoring the medial side effects of going after their specific obsessions, bargaining with the devil within their midst as they claw their way to the very best, these five ambitious teens draw ever nearer to their goals . until two of these uncover a key even more shocking than their personal most unforgivable sins. Dialing up the ancient dilemma of indulgence versus redemption, this modern-day retelling of the Faustian bargain story, set in twenty-first-century Manhattan, provides a check out the cutthroat globe of high-school competition that is both bitingly funny and scorchingly wicked.