Vera King is gorgeous. She knows it, everyone around her knows it, it’s undeniable. But at a school where “beautiful” is an adjective that accurately describes the physics nerds, gorgeous isn’t good enough. Vera would do anything to be as beautiful as Penny Cecile, but when she goes to an extreme, things don’t turn out quite the way she planned. Thrown into circumstances where surviving off her good looks is no longer possible, this narcissistically insecure girl has to discover what all those people are talking about when they say ‘inner beauty’.