You can't take it with you, but you can kill with it... Gelsey wants to be a ballerina. She's been schooled in it by her grandmother. Guided. Groomed. There is jealousy, nepotism, and intrigue. Like all of the ballet world. Things are going to plan-sort of. Her mother would rather her go to college. Time is running out. On the day of the final audition she will ever have, Gelsey finally gets a job. It's the chance to dance for a new ballet company. It seems her dream had come true. But the company is run by a horrible man. A man who chooses the daughter of someone famous as his muse and the rest are treated with insults and abuse. When her grandmother gifts her a pair of cursed ballet shoes that have the power to give her what she wants, Gelsey is tempted. She has a choice to make-to live under the tyrannical rule of an awful ballet master, or to accept the cost of the curse.