Eddie and his friends have had enough of show-off Courtney, so Eddie has a plan to lure Courtney down to Muddy Creek where there is a silly rumor about the Mud Monsters. But could the rumor be true?

"London, 1883. The Veil between the living and the dead has thinned dead-eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal Speaker Society, and 16-year-old Silas Bell would rather rip out his violet eyes than become an obedient Speaker wife. According to Mother, he'll be married by the end of the year. It doesn't matter that he's needed a decade of tutors to hide his autism; that he practices surgery on the slaughtered pigs; that...