In the early days of the Civil War rumors of gold in the frozen Klondikebrought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to competeRussian prospect... » 

In the early days of the Civil War rumors of gold in the frozen Klondikebrought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to competeRussian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a greatmachine that could mine through Alaskas ice. Thus was Dr. Blues IncredibleBoneShaking Drill Engine born. But on its first test run the Boneshakerwent terribly awry destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle andunearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed itinto the living dead. Now it is sixteen years later and a wall has beenbuilt to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blueswidow Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boyto support but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secretcrusade to rewrite history. His quest will take him under the wall and intoa city teeming with ravenous undead air pirates criminal overlords andheavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive. «