When a boy wakes up near a seemingly abandoned village with no memory of who he is or how he got there he sets out to uncover the truth behind what has happened. What he learns will both challenge and terrify him. Filled with suspense, adventure, and dark comedy, this first installment of the Secret Files of Jest R. Wicked has the hero up against a crazed doctor, people with a dark secret, unspeakable creatures, and an uncomfortable amount of spiders. In the same tradition of A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Name of This Book is Secret, and Coraline comes what Liz Szabla at Feiwel & Friends calls "a fun read" and John Rudolph of Dystel & Goderich Literary Management says is "an ambitious undertaking and I liked the creepy atmosphere." "This one has some great hooks going for it" says Jim Thomas/Nick Eliopulos at Random House.