After the death of his parents, Robert is forced to move in with a dinosaur-of-a-great-grandma and his ailing grandpa. Refusal to accept his fate embitters him to this new life, and only a spate of mysteries keep him distracted. What are the strange graffiti markings showing up on buildings? What happened in Grandpa's past that, as revealed through his dementia, he still dwells on? And most of all, why is the very monster that likely had something to do with a boy's decades-old disappearance now after Robert? When his little sister goes missing in a world he despises, Robert is sure only he can find her, but h must face his monster himself if he hopes to survive the ordeal.