A family crisis has veterinary student BJ Vaughan about to give up on school, until Dr. Charles Dobbs makes her part of a special team of healers. Dr. Dobbs introduces BJ to a world of unicorns, centaurs, and other wonderful creatures. As she tends them, she discovers the wonder of magic through her healing touch. An extraordinary novel of a world where medicine becomes magic.

BJ Vaughan has ventured beyond the frontiers of science to become a veterinarian in Crossroads—where she treats species she thought only existed in fantasy. Unfortunately, others have learned the way to Crossroads, those who threaten to tear this magical place apart.

Since she has become Keeper of the Book of Strangeways, BJ spends her days traveling throughout different realms, both real and imagined. On her journeys, she finds that outside of Crossroads, the creatures of myth and magic are falling ill. To save them, she must lure them back, to where they can be cared for and healed. But in doing so, BJ has opened a new road into Crossroads—and the land she loves in now in dire danger from the evil that has followed her home.