45 Nichols Drive is the first in an epic pentalogy: LAYLOCK IN MARYLAND, a Young Adult fantasy centered on a boy who is a slave of destiny, a destiny that is just as big as a certain great lonely island. He finds himself in a good family and thinks it's a coincidence, only to realize later that the Bensons are just a pack of minions in the manipulative hand of his destiny.
On the other hand, the Bensons think they have saved a boy from the beasts of the jungle unaware that, by their ordinary and seemingly inconsequential act of kindness, they have set a stage for a great extraordinary story: probably the greatest ever written or told on the great lonely island.