The Railway Mania has gripped England. The Iron Horse rules
supreme, and endlessly proliferating railway lines have created the
shadowy zone known as The Underarches, that lurks beneath the very
boot-heels of progress. Welcome to a steam-driven Victoriana where
gryphons are real and children's snow-globes are powered by
nasty-minded little imps. A world where a powerful new drug called
spike beguiles high and low society alike. Alexia Burgundy, owner
of a struggling railway company bedevilled by bad luck, is
reluctantly drawn into the sphere of Jack Hammond, proprietor of
the fabulously successful Hammond & Hill Railway Co., sole
producers at their Arleyvale coalmine of the revolutionary new fuel
called Black Adamantine. The journalist Daniel Benjamin, meanwhile,
persists in digging ever deeper into the circumstances surrounding
a mysterious accident at Hammond's mine. All the while, an entity
both ancient and implacable stirs in the bowels of the earth
beneath Arleyvale Colliery...
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