When Pearl Wolfbane and her family move into 34 Primrose Drive, everything soon becomes murky, weird, and crumbling, except for Pearl’s room. It stays pink, frilly, and normal because Pearl Wolfbane isn’t like the rest of her family. When Pearl meets her neighbors, the Rigid-Smythes, she is delighted. They have a swimming pool, not a swamp, a kitchen, not a dungeon. But they also have a daughter called Ruby and she isn’t like her family either…