The Monte family lives underground, but not in a cool alternative sort of way. Rather, living underground was an accident that just stuck. For Maisie, the youngest Monte, it was all she had ever known.
To her, waking up in the morning to earthworms burrowing just outside her bedroom window was commonplace, and Spending hours reading, or making up elaborate games, running through the vast tangle of tunnels, were her favorite pastimes.
Everything in Maisie’s life is perfect, that is, until she overhears something that turns her world upside down, and she begins to question what life would be like if she went up.
