Who, exactly, are these strangers?īefore Chess, Emma, and Finn can question their mom about it, she takes off on a sudden work trip and leaves them in the care of Ms.

The other kids share their same first and middle names. They’ve been a happy family, just the three of them and their mom.īut everything changes when reports of three kidnapped children reach the Greystone kids, and they’re shocked by the startling similarities between themselves and these complete strangers. Chess has always been the protector over his younger siblings, Emma loves math, and Finn does what Finn does best-acting silly and being adored. The coins are messengers, telling the Greystones and their allies that their friends in the alternate world are under attack-and that the cruel, mind-controlling forces are now invading the better world, too.Īfter another spinning, sliding journey across worlds, the Greystone kids must solve mysteries that have haunted them since the beginning: what happened when the Gustanos were kidnapped, what created the alternate world, and how a group of mismatched kids can triumph once and for all against an evil force that seems to have total control. And with the right touch, those symbols transform into words: PLEASE LISTEN.

They are inscribed with codes that look just like what the Greystones’ father was working on before he died. Then mysterious coins begin falling from unexpected places. As book three of the Greystone Secrets series opens, the Greystone kids have their mother back from the evil alternate world, and so does their friend Natalie.

The greystone secrets the strangers