Lauren Smith believed she was an ordinary girl from New York City, but that all changes when her father meets her in the principal's office one day and opens her eyes up to a world she didn't know existed, a world that exists directly below her feet. Throughout the course of the novel Lauren Smith embarks on an epic journey to discover the truth about herself and her family, and along the way becomes mixed up in the intrigue, conspiracies, and problems of the underground world. Eventually Lauren Smith finds herself mixed up in a plot that could affect not only the livelihood of the underground world but also Humanity. It becomes a race against the clock for Lauren to be able to preserve and ensure the continuity of not only Humanity but also the underground world she has grown to not only care about but love. With non-stop action, and plenty of twists and turns, A Way in and A Way Out is a novel that will keep its readers on their toes from start to finish. It is a novel that asks the basic question that all Humans desire to know: "What does it mean to be Human?" Through the eyes of the many species of the underground world, Lauren begins to piece together an answer to that question.
