“I was a rat!” insists the strange boy found on the doorstep of Bob the cobbler and his wife, Joan. It’s all he says—and with his sharp teeth and curious habits, it’s hard not to believe him.
As Roger begins to settle into life as a normal boy, Bob and Joan try to uncover where he came from. But no one—the police, the hospital, or even the orphanage—has any record of him. As word spreads about the peculiar rat-boy, Roger finds himself in growing danger.
And in a city full of secrets and surprises, it turns out that help can come from the most unlikely places…