Heloise has a strange name for a Turkish girl who's never been to Turkey. It won't sound as strange when you get to know her family.

"Lacy Kasden is famously pregnant. Our town is as idyllic as one would imagine, pristine to the point that when Lacy Kasden arrived one fine morning with a slight bump on her abdomen, we did not suspect a thing. Not even as it grew, and not until it was a certain size at which we could not deny what it was - Jora Norman's unborn was inside Lacy Kasden. It was also Lacy Kasden's unborn - it was Lacy Kasden's baby." When our protagonist's quiet town (as well as her father) is swallowed by mutant vines, she finds herself following Lacy Kasden's oddly shaped silhouette, into and out of adventure and danger, and deeper into heartbreak.