The Reclamation · Book Two
Firedamp
After Ivy Sturgill stops the mine’s final seal, the company targets her livelihood. Evidence, her grandmother’s letters, and the widows’ names lead her toward the truth about seventeen miners sealed underground—and the four impossible beings whose protection tests her choices.
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What is Firedamp about?
After Ivy Sturgill stops the mine’s final seal, the company targets her livelihood. Evidence, her grandmother’s letters, and the widows’ names lead her toward the truth about seventeen miners sealed underground—and the four impossible beings whose protection tests her choices.
An adult Appalachian Gothic why-choose monster romance with a continuing mystery and relationships that develop across the series. Read Overburden, then Firedamp, then Undercut.
People and creatures
Ivy Sturgill is a licensed human land surveyor returning to her West Virginia home. The mountain’s watchers are Early, the immense white creature working the spoil; Amos, a moth-winged being whose evenings do not run in ordinary order; Tally, the pale watcher who counts the miners; and Whistler, a woman whose shape is entangled with the stories told about her.
World and setting
The Vane and Sang Mountain in fictional Aldervane County, West Virginia, in 2026–27. A damaged coal landscape carries the history of the invented 1966 No. 6 mine disaster.
What’s at stake
After stopping the final seal, Ivy faces withheld pay and challenges to her work while pursuing the widows’ records and the truth about the seventeen miners.
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