A High Fantasy from the author of The Mine Lord.    What life can the dying live? Jareen is an Insensitive; the Wellsprings have no effect on her. She will die. The ancient Vien found the Wellsprings as they fled desolation. From deep below flows the power which grants them perpetual life and turns their barren land into fruitful gardens. Trying to find some meaning in her short years, Jareen cares for the dying among the humans in Nosh-across-the-sea, but sudden mortality returns to the Vi...

When a young dwarf named Yorvig travels to a mining claim in the wilds of the Red Ridges, he learns by hard experience that his fellow prospectors are more focused on ore than survival. Thinking he alone can hold disaster at bay, Yorvig plots his way to becoming captain of the mine. He only expected to lead in a fight against starvation, but far greater danger arrives in forms both fair and foul. The mine grows beyond what they ever imagined, and while Yorvig's authority must grow with it, th...