Fourteen year old Rachel West can feel monsters.  Gargoyles in the darkest forest.  An 80-foot octopus in the deepest sea.  Worse.  Her connection to these creatures may be their last hope to survive.  Together with her only friend Quinn, her younger brother Jack, and the spectral Guide, Rachel battles a conniving old man called Snake Oil to save creatures on the fringe, if not in our world then in another.