Ella’s mom just married a big-shot director and now they’ve moved to Hollywood. Does Ella care? All she cares about is the secret trapdoor she found in her bedroom floor... And the mysteries inside. What’s in these strange red vials she finds? Her mind automatically goes to blood. But thinking about the way they smoke when she opens them, she thinks they might be something more. She knows a famous actress named Emma McHenry used to live in her house, but she went crazy and drank poison that killed her. Could this be the poison Emma killed herself with? Ella is so tempted to drink the vials, but if it’s poison, she won’t risk it. When her stepdad warns her about a psycho on the streets of Hollywood that poisons young girls, she starts to get scared that the vials are disappearing. Now she gets messages in the secret room. Can Ella uncover the secret of her new home? Or will she die before she can discover anything?