Life always seemed somewhat empty, and joy always seemed over the next hill for Adam, an orphan in town. He had friends, he had an absent girlfriend, but he longed for something more: to be loved unconditionally and to not be alone. And he found his answers in the oddest of ways. After the Gentle Man comes into the town, Adamas world, along with many othersa, is turned upside down, and nothing is as it seems anymore. The Watchman and the Woods is a delightfully unique and beautiful tale by first-time author Sean Patrick Kirby that depicts life, love, happiness, sadness, death, and depression in the allegorical tradition of C.S. Lewisa The Great Divorce and John Bunyanas Pilgrimas Progress.