Publisher's Synopsis
Klapit mine abandoned to the ghosts.
Shelpit mine nearly empty after half a generation.
The orphans are now adults, struggling to find a future in and for Shells.
Specters of the ancestors awakens.
The future of the Pit Miners, and the communities beyond that they barely know exist, are at risk. They must overcome their fears, and laws so ancient they were written, to find and use forgotten tools that have survived through more than a dozen generations.