Robert Masello

A priceless manuscript, illuminated with fantastical creatures thought to have roamed the Garden of Eden, the bestiary has been handed down through the centuries by one of the Arab world’s most prominent and mysterious families. Commissioned to restore it -- at the Getty Museum and Research Institute in Los Angeles -- is the beautiful young art curator, Beth Cox.

But it is Beth’s husband, Carter -- a brilliant paleontologist making his own dire discoveries in the famed La Brea tar pits -- who will be led by the bestiary into a living breathing menagerie of wonders ... and horrors.

Now, myth and reality are about to collide, with awful consequences. Carter will step back into a world before time ... and unwittingly free the creatures that haunt our deepest dreams and nightmares.