One of fantasy's most popular best-selling authors, Mickey Zucker Reichert explores a thrilling new fantasy universe in a special two-book saga, beginning with The Beasts of Barakhal.When a white rat escapes its cage in a college bio lab, grad student Ben Collins follows the rodent into a storeroom -- and through a secret gateway to another world. In this oddly medieval realm, practically everyone was a shapeshifter forced to transform daily from human to animal form. But Ben is the one who could realty change their world...forever.