The Village at Number Zero

Boston has a village that doesn't appear on any map.Twenty-three crooked houses surround a cobblestone square. One keeps forgotten names. Another protects abandoned memories. Another seems to bake cookies whenever the world is about to end.And at the center of it all is a door marked with a single number: Fifteen-year-old Leo Keene knows nothing about Bellweather Village until Boston wakes up one Wednesday morning and Tuesday has vanished.Not forgotten.Gone.Everyone accepts it as normal-except Leo.Because Tuesday was the anniversary of his mother's death.Then something even worse happens.His father no longer remembers that Leo's mother ever existed.Following an impossible trail through Boston leads Leo to a green door hidden in an alley that should not exist. Behind it waits Bellweather Village, a place where lost streets, forgotten hours, discarded lives, and impossible possibilities are kept from disappearing forever.Waiting for Leo is Amos Bellweather, an eccentric old man in rabbit slippers who knows far too much about Leo's family.And his first words change everything:Leo's mother may not be dead.What begins as a search for the truth becomes a race through stolen days, walking houses, hidden versions of Boston, alternate lives, a mysterious twenty-fourth hour, and a terrifying house that has been locked outside ordinary time for forty-one years.But the deeper Leo travels into Bellweather, the more dangerous the truth becomes.His age may be wrong.His family may not be who he believes they are.His mother may have lived more than one life.And Leo himself may not simply be a visitor to Number Zero.He may be Number Zero.Now an ancient force that once controlled Bellweather wants its power back, and Leo must decide whether reality should be ruled by someone who chooses which people, memories, and lives deserve to exist-or whether even the impossible deserves a chance to belong.Funny, dark, emotional, strange, and relentlessly unpredictable, The Village at Number Zero is a supernatural adventure about family, memory, second chances, and what happens when the world decides there is no room for you.Because in Bellweather Village, nothing truly disappears.Some things are merely waiting for the right door to open.And some doors should never have existed at all.