Michael Fay is a normal boy, living with his grandparents on their family farm in rural Ireland. In the woods-once thought safe and well-explored-there are wolves; and other, stranger things. He keeps them from his family, even his Aunt Rose, his closest friend, until the day he finds himself in the Other Place. There are wild people, and terrible monsters, and a girl called Cat.When the wolves follow him from the Other Place to his family's doorstep, Michael must choose between locking the doors and looking away-or following Cat on an adventure that may take an entire lifetime in the Other Place. He will become a man, and a warrior, and confront the Devil himself: the terrible Dark Horseman...