I don't think eye candy is that necessary, but if you'd like to spice it up a bit:
Make each girl's name a graphic. Takes five minutes to whip up a small stylized gif.
Have a background image of the girl tacked to the upper left. Make it a few hundred pixels wide and about 700 high. Make sure she's cut out of the original image and give it a 30-40% opacity.
Put little nav buttons at the bottom.
Put a black 1px border around the thumbs.
The story idea is good.
Just suggestions. I like things as simple as possible, personally. Once they're sold, they just want quick access to what they bought.
garce