Now approaching their thirties, the trio lives in [Undisclosed], a dying American Midwest town sitting on a hole in a fabric of reality from which interdimensional entities repeatedly attempt to break through.

Dave is the main narrator of the story, relating events to the reader in first-person, while John, Joy and Amy supplement him with their third-person accounts.

After cleaning up, John and Dave respond to a house call from Regina Galveston, whose 9-year-old daughter, Gracie, exhibits signs of worrisome behavior.

They discover Gracie's novelty toy, an egg connected to a smartphone that asks to be fed human body parts through the app, and confiscate it.

Amy joins the investigation, and they discover that Gracie was gifted the toy by her older brother, Bas, who has a book from the future and, along with his followers, is trying to perform a summoning ritual.

Unable to prove this to anyone, Bas desired revenge on the entire world and was approached by his old self from the future with the power and knowledge to make that happen.

Appealing to Bas' love for Gracie, John and Dave manage to change his mind by promising to remove Dalton from their lives for good.

"Fancy Dave" explains that the time loop was part of the summoning: the final stage required 1 trillion human faces, which could only be collected across parallel timelines.

"[5] Collin Henderson of Horror Obsessive praised the way the book described and dealt with trauma, calling it "hilarious and scary work from an author who has perfected the art of mixing absurdity with existential terror".