Debt to the Deep Places

A sequel to “Wrath of the Deep Lord”

De: John Bayne, HTJ Fiction Publications

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Sixty years have passed since the woodcutter Gonway helped save Iron Town from the terror of the Deep Lord. The village has grown and prospered, the mines run deep into the Karth Mountains, and Gonway — still wearing the face of a thirty-three-year-old man despite his ninety-three years — has settled into the quiet, if solitary, life of a man the world has largely passed by. His old friend Tobias grows frail. A young apprentice fills the house with ink-stained notebooks and difficult questions. Life, for the most part, continues.

Then the mountains shake.

Two miners die in the cave-in. The walls crack. And in the deep woods, ancient spirits deliver a warning that finds its way to Gonway in a dream: the mountain is angry, its patience exhausted, and if the mines continue their descent into the deep places, an army of trolls will come down from the heights and finish what the earthquake started.

The only hope lies in retrieving the Heart of the World — an ancient relic stolen long ago from the mountain spirits — and returning it to the sanctum deep beneath the mountains. To find it, Gonway and a boy barely old enough to apprentice must cross weeks of brutal wilderness, survive wolves and worse, and locate a ruined monastery where one old monk has been waiting forty years for exactly this moment.

But the truth waiting at the bottom of the world is not the truth Gonway was sent to find. And the price of saving Iron Town will be paid in the only currency the old world has left.