When mining magnate Bram Copper-Hand is found dead in a sealed shaft at Copperfall Hold, the official verdict is a cave-in. His daughter Kerra knows better. Her father knew those tunnels better than anyone alive — and he was found in a section that was supposed to be abandoned.

She needs someone who can read the evidence no one else can see. Someone who can hear what the stone remembers.

Torvin Deep-Ear was one of the best resonance-readers in the region — a stone-speaker who could feel what stone feels: vibrations, pressure, stress, the impressions left by violent impacts and intense emotions crystallized into the rock itself. Then the Brightshaft Collapse killed three miners on his reading. His credentials were stripped. His reputation destroyed.

But the deeper Torvin reads, the darker the truth becomes. Bram Copper-Hand wasn't just a businessman — he was sitting on secrets that could destroy Copperfall's ruling council. The killer knows exactly how stone-sense works, and they're systematically eliminating anyone who might read the truth from the walls.