"Black silence seemed to have a pressure of its own on my eardrums. I moved the beam of light about me cautiously. A false step in any direction might plunge me into some unseen shaft. Yet to sit down and wait in patient surrender was beyond me at the moment. If I moved, if I took some action, perhaps I could hold off a terror that waited for me, just beyond the edge of reason. As a child, I knew I'd been horribly afraid of this mine - perhaps only because it was a black pit in the mountain that my father must have shown me. Later it had become the place in which I feared that he had died. But these were thoughts that I must not let in." (Back cover text) Authors: Phyllis A. Whitney Binding: Hardcover Label: Doubleday Manufacturer: Doubleday Publication Date: 1979 Publisher: Doubleday Studio: Doubleday