The Reclamation · Book Three
Undercut
With the mountain road gone and fog reaching the houses, Ivy carries the lamp-house key into a search for Russ Tackett and the history of a vanished house. She needs daylight, witnesses, and the truth—and lovers who will stand beside her when she opens the door.
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What is Undercut about?
With the mountain road gone and fog reaching the houses, Ivy carries the lamp-house key into a search for Russ Tackett and the history of a vanished house. She needs daylight, witnesses, and the truth—and lovers who will stand beside her when she opens the door.
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
A lost road, a missing driller, and the lamp-house history force Ivy to pursue the truth with witnesses while threats to the mountain and its people escalate.
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