When a catastrophic explosion rips through the tunnels, burying hundreds of men alive, Billy finds himself trapped in the wreckage-a lone survivor in a silent tomb of coal and corpses. As he fights to escape the suffocating blackness, he is forced to confront the ghosts of the pit, the brutal reality of the mining life, and the terrible cost of survival.

Set against the harrowing backdrop of a coal-mining disaster, this novel is a gritty, heart-wrenching tribute to the men and boys who toiled beneath the earth, and the families who waited in fear for their return. This is a story of sacrifice, grief, and the unbreakable spirit of those who lived-and died-by the coal.