This is a Lemony Snicket Series of Unfortunate Events story. Lots of Quiglet and a little Kladora.

Klaus Baudelaire's parents had perished in a terrible fire when he was 12, destroying his home, possessions and orphaning him and his sisters. Following this unfortunate event he endured numerous attempts to have his fortune stolen and life taken from him, not to mention all the times his dear ones were maimed or murdered. But if Klaus Baudelaire had been presented with a different life; a life in which the fire had been nothing more than a nightmare, he would have denied it. For in his nightmare there was a flower that grew in the eye of the hurricane. She was beautiful, clever and perfect. She was his. And she was his will to survive.

What if I was the only one Baudelaire child? What if I wasn't as close to my aunt Josephine as I was to my uncle Monty, and a disturbingly awkward Count Olaf. What if my uncle Monty died? What if uncle Monty just died from old age? What if I was forced to go to an orphanage instead of Mr. Poe passing me onto more relatives? That's what this story is about.