Morales gets trapped in the alternate reality. The kids reluctantly leave Mom and help the Gustano children escape back into their normal reality.

She tells them the most important thing now is for them to save the Gustano kids, who are in the same building. The kids meet Joe, the man from Mom’s phone conversation, and he helps them get to her. Morales’s doppelgänger, is using false recordings to make the townspeople think Mom is confessing to crimes. The Greystone kids and Natalie return to the alternate reality, too, where they discover Mom is on trial. So Mom returned to the alternate reality to try to make things right for the Gustanos. They had inadvertently kidnapped her doppelgänger’s children. She knew that they would have doppelgängers there, so she did her best to ensure their paths would never cross.īut when she heard the news report about the kidnappings in Arizona, she knew enemies from her old reality were after her. When Dad was killed for this, Mom took the kids and fled to their current reality. Mom and Dad had lived there and tried to fight the oppressive leadership. When they finally crack part of Mom’s code, they learn the world they’ve visited-and the world where Mom is currently imprisoned-is an alternate reality. The kids return to Natalie’s house with Mom’s laptop. The Greystone siblings assure her she’s wrong. Morales is a private investigator who often spies on cheating husbands, so Natalie is sure there is some sort of relationship problem at the core of Mom’s disappearance. They also find secret rooms and passageways beyond Mom’s basement office that take them to a world they don’t recognize. They discover Mom’s phone and computers are still there, and they find a code on Mom’s laptop.

The kids and Natalie make trips to the Greystone house to feed the cat every few days.

They will stay with one of Mom’s PTA acquaintances, Ms. The next day, she tells the kids she’s leaving on a business trip and may be too busy to call them. Chess overhears Mom having a strange conversation at three in the morning with someone named Joe. The Greystone children are shocked to learn the missing kids, whose last name is Gustano, have the same first and middle names as each of them, as well as the same dates of birth. She’s watching a report about three kidnapped siblings in Arizona. The kids return from school one day to find Mom deeply troubled. Their dad died eight years earlier, and only Chess remembers him. Twelve-year-old Chess Greystone and his younger siblings, Emma and Finn, live with their mom in Ohio.

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