A brooding murder mystery that hinges on the dark edges of imagination, this novel centers on a death on a mountain that produced no body--only rumors. Elan has been missing for two years. Her people presume she has abandoned the mountain to live with the travelers who collect crystals from the quarries every summer. Nye John, a friend of Elan, lives alone in a remote cottage on the far side of the Brechfa. He has lost valuable stock to unaccountable...