The sun-bleached, lopsided wooden town sign decorates the side of the new highway through the desert. Someone has thoughtfully painted the population statistics on it: 5000 3502 2006 1545 810 200. Grymm, the dripping, blood-red paint reveals, is a place you leave . Instead, thanks to a job offer that George Lipton and his wife cannot afford to ignore, squabbling step-siblings Jacob Daniels, 11, and Wilhelmina Lipton, 13, are rushing towards it. And worst of all they have to put up with their hated, caterwauling six-month-old half-brother, Bryan. Then, overnight, baby Bryan disappears, as if he never even existed . And that's when things get seriously weird.
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