Hello everyone!
I have a very exciting announcement to make. After I finished writing The Ghost and the Real Girl, I thought I was finished with stories from Caelum, but it seems I wasn’t quite done yet.
All her life, Adi has felt at home underground. The daughter of copper miners, it was expected that she would follow her parents’ into the Red Mines as soon as she was old enough. Only now, she wakes to find gemstones in her bed every morning, and veins of copper find their way to the surface whenever she walks past. At first, she rejoices, thinking that her parents won’t have to work for days on end, but soon it becomes clear that each time she brings something to the surface, it vanishes from below, making the mountain crumble underneath them.
She does her best to hide her new abilities, but the small town she has lived in all her life turns on her, cursing her as a witch. That is, everyone except for Wren, the keeper of the mine’s glowfrogs. The two strike up a fast friendship, with Adi’s gems buying everything they need, and Wren singing them to sleep every night.
Suddenly one day, an earthquake buries her father and the other miners under ten tons of rock, trapping them deep underground. Adi must summon all of her new magic to find a way through the caves that snake their way through the mountain before they run out of air, water, and hope.
A companion to THE GHOST AND THE REAL GIRL, THE STONE SINGS TRUE is a story of endurance, family, and finding your place when the ground shifts beneath you.
Avery Carter 