The Last Grace of Hollowmere

About this book

On Sorrel, people can breathe in only one place: the caldera of Hollowmere, where an underground organism called the choir exhales the air. Tamsin Ferrow used to be its Grace, the girl who went down to listen to it. Two years ago the choir convulsed during her Hearing, a breath-well collapsed, and eleven people died, her little brother among them. Now eighteen and disgraced, she scrapes spore-crust from filters at night. Then she drags Teo Hask, a masked drill hand from the orbital station overhead, out of a collapsing mining shaft, and the choir binds them together. They share each other's pain, heartbeat and, in flashes, sight. Her people call that a sacred marriage. His company calls it contamination. Both call it a crime. And through Teo's eyes, Tamsin starts to see what is really happening under Hollowmere.