#1 New York Times bestseller Brandon Mull launches a brand-new multiplatrform phenomenon.
Four children separated by vast distances all undergo the same ritual, watched by cloaked strangers. Four flashes of light erupt, and from them emerge the unmistakable shapes of incredible beasts - a wolf, a leopard, a panda, a falcon.
Suddenly the paths of these children - and the world - have been changed forever.