Hi, I'm Ivy Lépore. I'm 14 years old, and I'm an orphan. I have been adopted many times, but I never stay for long. I've run away so many times, I lost count. I always end up right back at the orphanage. I got adopted again today. Something gave me the feeling that there was something...off about this family. They did things so differently, it was weird. They have all these weird spices in the cupboards, I hear strange noises coming from the woods surrounding the house every night, and there are a bunch of rooms in this gigantic house that are locked with at least fifty locks! I'm not allowed in most of the rooms. Everything about this family is just odd, but I'm gonna find out what's going on...no matter what it takes.