"Green trips on the curb, falls flat into the street, and sees the city bus speeding towards him. And then...blink. He's back on the curb, miraculously still alive. A five-foot-tall crow watches him from atop a nearby sign, somehow unseen by the rushing crowd of morning communters. Desperate for answers and beset by more visions of impossible creatures, Green finds his way to a remote campsite in the Appalachian mountains, where he meets a centuries-old teacher and begins an apprenticeship unlike anything he could imaging. Under his new memtor's grouchy tutelage, Green studies the time-bending rag moth, the glass fawn, and the menacing horned wolf. He begins to see past hidden nature's terrors and glimpse its beauty--all while befriending fellow misfits, finding connection and community. Along the way come clues about the forces that set him on his path--and, most incredibly, a sense of purpose and fulfillment like nothing he's felt before. But Green's new happiness promises to be short-lived, because alongside these marvels lurks a deadly threat to this place he's already come to love."--Provided by publisher.