Siblings, Molly and Kip, two runaway orphans, make their way into the creepy woods of a small town to work for a family that has hired them through an advertisement. Bad things happen at the Windsor house, they've been warned. Upon arrival, the children find a dilapidated house with an ominous tree growing right through it and a family full of secrets. 
 Molly and Kip are charming and Auxier does an incredible job of populating the house with lots of scary Victorian effects. I will admit that my enjoyment of the book waned towards the end. For being a children's book, some of the action and outcomes bordered more on horror and there were quite a few deaths that occurred. In the acknowledgements, Auxier credits influences from Bradbury, Irving, Hodgson Burnett and J.M. Barrie; all of which you can see woven into the story. 
 Overall, it was a page turner and would have no doubt entertained me as a kid, just as it did for me as an adult!