Jax Malone and her cousin Ethan Hoche were not expecting one of Jax’s birthday presents would contain a dangerous magical object from a mythical past: an urn belonging to Pandora’s daughter sent to Jax by their estranged great-aunt-an urn with the regrettable power to suck hope out of the world.

Now, even though they were never meant to open the present and discover its secret, it’s up to them to race to Boston to protect it. There, they must find and destroy the two remaining urns. Urns that could rid humanity of both faith and love.

Unfortunately for Jax and Ethan, the existence of the urns is no longer hidden and there are powerful enemies who want to find them and use them to control the world. On top of that, they really don’t know where the urns are. Their only chance of finding them is decoding a strange clue left by their great-aunt-a mysterious ancient Greek cipher… .