Ma Hankley's Amazing Turnips

Mysterious disappearances, bizarre psychological disturbances, and an obsession with turnips are only a handful of the outward oddities that set Cricket, Michigan apart from other small towns.Average citizens bound together through a blood covenant they weren't aware they'd made. White picket fences, church potlucks, and poisoned water. Beneath typical Midwestern root cellars and cheerfully blooming gardens, dark secrets grow.What's thicker, blood or water? What if the blood is in the water?A group of curious, persistent children are poised to uncover a web of lies so far-reaching, the ensuing revelations will have disastrous effects on every family in Cricket.The final piece of the puzzle is to figure out what turnips and aliens could possibly have to do with one another, and how seeds planted decades ago will bring both to unfortunate fruition.Turnips and aliens. A combination that kills.