After relocating yet another time, Zachary Cole can only hope that this time will be his last. He has spent most of his life moving from one city to the next and he simply wants it to end. Zachary is only twelve and already he has left a trail of homes and partially made friends behind-his family leaves town without so much as a goodbye. Sir Edmund Loomis Public School is somewhat strange, but why should he worry? He just doesn't want to move again. Not only is he given a warm welcome by his new teacher, Mr. Blaides, but Zachary is quickly befriended by several classmates. But when Zachary is cornered by the one boy in school who seems to dislike him, his entire world changes, and all of a sudden he is in Est'vor, a world in which he finds himself among beings and creatures that are even beyond his dreams.