What the Crickets Mapped

About this book

Three years ago Marisol "Sol" Betancort was the island's golden girl: at nineteen she built the Grillos, palm-sized robots that charge themselves from the warmth of rock and explore the lava tubes of Lanzarote. Then a sponsored livestream went wrong, a tube ceiling fell, and the caver Abel Cabrera was buried with her swarm. Sol fled to a night shift in a Rotterdam warehouse. Now, in March 2026, unit seven has walked out of a collapse pit on the Corona lava field, carrying three years of logs and the last forty minutes before the roof came down. Abel's brother wants his body home, her former partner wants the robots' code, and the island wants the hole sealed in thirteen days. To learn what she really did, Sol will have to go back into the dark.