Publisher's Synopsis
Aiman Shearer and his family are content to ranch and quietly prosper on the edge of their world, far from the empires of wizards and the cities of young industry. But marauding dunters are exploiting steam power to seize territory while the cities of wizards fight to consolidate influence in this new age of rails and cannon. Neither can ignore Aiman's flourishing alpine village of Emmervale. Aiman and Emmervale must seek allies where they can find them, whether demolition-expert dwarves or loner outlaws.*"Each of the dunter guards held a long musket. The two of them looked grim and long-toothed enough, and certainly wide awake in this night, but they were smaller and overall less impressive than those I had seen up close weeks ago when they had shot at Jed and me. Perhaps all the meatier dunters had gone off in the expeditionary army, or were working at the end of the tracks, and those left here were the third line . . . "
