A New Beginning

What if the natural world had been waiting - quietly, patiently - for someone willing to listen?

In a small conservatory in South Carolina, a man named Liam tends his tropical plants, talks to rocks, and hears voices in the garden that no one else can hear. He is seventy-three years old, perpetually curious, and increasingly convinced that humanity is running out of time. Then, beneath an Elephant Ear leaf beside his bog, a centuries-old faery named Aubrette steps out of the parallel world and tells him he has been chosen.

A New Beginning is a rare and ambitious work - part eco-fiction, part philosophical treatise, part Celtic mythology, and wholly a love letter to the natural world. Through Liam's journey from backyard gardener to unwilling participant in Gaia's last great mission, author Michal Dennis weaves together indigenous wisdom, plant intelligence, climate crisis, corporate greed, and the ancient Fae of Celtic legend into a sweeping vision of what it might look like if Mother Nature finally decided to push back.

From the Amazon rainforest to the halls of capitalism, from the teachings of Carl Jung and Albert Einstein to the oral traditions of the Ojibwe and Diné peoples, this book asks the questions most of us are too comfortable to sit with: What have we destroyed? Who is responsible? And is it already too late - or is there still, in the spaces between darkness and light, a new beginning waiting to be found?

For readers who have ever stood in a forest and felt something looking back.