Ivy Sturgill stopped the final seal on the No. 6 mine. Now the people protecting its secrets are coming for her livelihood.
Her instruments recorded something answering beneath the mountain. A federal review has stalled the concrete pour—and given the company every reason to discredit the surveyor who signed the report.
Ivy has her grandmother's letters, the widows' names, and evidence the official account can't explain. Somewhere in the Vane, an old man knows what happened when seventeen miners were sealed underground. His family has spent years making sure he never finishes telling it.
Finding him means crossing a town that can turn a covered dish into an obligation and a kindness into a warning.
And Ivy's growing attachments bring dangers of their own.
Four impossible beings keep watch over the mountain. She wants their closeness, their strange tenderness, the touch she's stopped pretending she doesn't need. But their ideas of keeping her safe don't always leave room for her choices.
As the company closes in and the past begins returning, Ivy must decide whom she can trust with the evidence—and whom she can trust with herself.
Firedamp is Book Two of The Reclamation, an adult Appalachian Gothic why-choose monster romance with an ongoing mystery and relationships that develop across the series. Begin with Overburden.
