Kit Watson and his family return to the coal-mining town of Stoneygate to look after Kit's aging, recently widowed grandfather. Kit is lured into playing a game called Death by a boy named John Askew. When Kit must stay alone in a mine, he is haunted by the ghosts of people who died working in the mines. John disappears and Kit, an aspiring writer, creates a story about a prehistoric boy who becomes separated from his family. The story parallel's John's life and the stories that Kit's grandfather has told him about the mines. .

English language arts grade 9 (2009).