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Skinny Caldwell was 15-years-old wher her mama vanished with a charismatic stranger named Zell Dorsey.

When Zell returns to the small coal mining community of Jubilee, West Virginia thirteen years later, alone, Skinny is determined to find out what really happened. As she uncovers disturbing truths about her mama’s fate and Zell’s sinister plan, she turns to Happy Walker, her school bus driver and the closest thing she has to a father. But nothing prepares them for what they find: Behind Zell Dorsey’s charming veneer is a creature far older and much darker than the seams of coal running through the mines above Jubilee, and he’s hellbent on turning everyone Skinny loves into oil-slicked monsters.

This book is a testament to the resilience of grieving mothers and the tenacity of the beautiful people of Appalachia, a place where the accents sing rather than talk and the tea is always sweet.