"The horrible figure from the Prestwich Tunnel hovered there. Not a ghost. Something between a badly disfigured man and a monster. There was a limit to what the human mind could comprehend, and the ghastly thing standing before her was beyond that limit."

In 1985, the Copper Man killed Leah Shaw's twin brother, Liam, in the mining town of Tribulation Gulch. Three decades later, Leah is an environmental reporter back in her Wyoming hometown, covering the reopening of the copper mine.

But when people literally drop dead around her, Leah can't believe it's the work of the Copper Man. After all, he's dead...right?

Except Leah can't stop seeing shadows, and creepy copper nuggets are showing up everywhere. Workers say the mine is haunted, and the words "I CURSE THIS PLACE" are appearing all over the mine-the very words the Copper Man scrawled on a bridge before jumping to his death.

Has the Copper Man come back for Leah, aiming to finish what he started 35 years ago? Is Leah's young daughter in danger? And what other secrets are waiting for her among the dusty hills of Tribulation Gulch?

A gripping tale of revenge with a compelling cast of characters. From the author of The Root Witch and The Devil's Shallows comes the latest Dark Earth Rising novel.