CW: This book deals with parental neglect. While it is not graphic, I urger you, please look after your own mental health, first and foremost.
Martin is struggling more than usual. As if needing to learn how to cook so he and his sister can eat and having to collect cans from the massive field off Chrome Road wasn't enough, Martin also has to deal with nightly alien abductions. Great. Tall, gray aliens offer him a place on their ship, but at a price. Leave his life, family, and friends behind for his place in the stars. They promise all of his Earthly worries will be a thing of the past. At first, Martin tells the aliens to take a hike. As if he could leave Sage, Priscilla, or his little sister, Nina, behind. But as the nights grow longer, and the food in his family's cabinets is getting scarcer, Martin worries it might be his only choice...