A silent climber in the dark shafts. A sudden tunnel collapse that buries a young miner's only hope.
Onyx is a remarkably agile obsidian gecko with jet-black scales and golden eyes who makes his home among the sparkling quartz crystal veins of the historic Ironstone Mine, feeding on subterranean insects and guiding lost bats through the ventilation shafts.
When a heavy spring mudslide triggers a catastrophic collapse in the deep third-level gallery, trapping a young apprentice miner and his small terrier in a dark air pocket, rising groundwater threatens to submerge the lower tunnels.
With surface rescue crews unable to locate the collapsed chamber through thirty feet of solid granite, Onyx must squeeze through microscopic rock fissures to locate the survivors and guide them through an abandoned Victorian drainage flue before the water reaches the ceiling.
Can a tiny gecko lead the trapped miner out of the dark abyss, or will Ironstone Mine become their permanent tomb?
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