Overview

All her life, Adi has felt at home underground. The daughter of copper miners, it was expected that she would follow her parents’ into the Red Mines as soon as she was old enough. Only now, she wakes to find gemstones under her bed, summoned up by a silly little song. She's sure it's a dream, but the crystals flash and sing along to her voice.

When a mine accident reveals her powers, she is outcast, banished from the town and branded a witch by everyone. That is, everyone except for Wren, the keeper of the mine’s glowfrogs. The two strike up a fast friendship as Adi begins to explore her newfound abilities. Soon, they discover that when Adi summons something to the surface, it vanishes from below, triggering earthquakes that shake the entire town.

Suddenly one day, an earthquake buries her father and the other miners under ten tons of rock, trapping them deep underground. Adi must summon all of her new magic to find a way through the caves that snake their way through the mountain before they run out of air, water, and hope.

A companion to THE GHOST AND THE REAL GIRL, THE STONE SINGS TRUE is a story of endurance, family, and finding your place when the ground shifts beneath you.