Natalie struggles with her relationship with her parents, who are divorced in one world and married in the other. In this sequel, Haddix explores themes of honesty and love as the children compare their experiences to those in the alternate universe. This sequel never slows in pace, thrusting the characters into new, treacherous mysteries. Now all four kids must work together to reopen the tunnel to a dangerous dystopia and decipher the secret code that Kate Greystone left for her children to solve. Their only path between worlds, a lever stuck to the wall of the Greystones’ basement, broke. During their desperate flight from danger, the Greystone siblings’ friend Natalie Mayhew lost her mother there, too. In series opener The Strangers (2019), siblings Finn, Emma, and Chess escaped the parallel world into which their mother disappeared, but they still failed to reunite their family. Four kids rush to rescue their families from the clutches of a tyrannical government in an alternate dimension.
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