Or did you just walk in? Very well... Once upon a time there were eight sisters who would all one day be eight years old. At the same time. You know: octuplets. Their names were Annie, Durinda, Georgia, Jackie, Marcia, Petal, Rebecca, and Zinnia. They were each born a minute apart on August 8, 2000. All eight had brown hair and brown eyes. And although they were all the same exact age, give or take a few minutes, each was one inch taller than the next, with Zinnia being the shortest and Annie the tallest. On New Year's Eve 2007, their parents disappeared, or died. Their mother went into the kitchen for eggnog, their father went out to the woodshed for firewood, and neither returned. Now the Eights must figure out what happened to their parents while keeping the outside world from discovering that eight little girls are home alone. At the beginning of their first adventure, also known as The Sisters Eight, Book 1: Annie's Adventures, the girls became aware of the disappearance of their parents, and they found a note hidden behind a loose stone in the wall of the drawing room of their magnificent home.