The Strength of Old Shale

When bones of a mother and her child, wrapped in a Shetland lace shawl, are dug up from a forgotten graveyard, two worlds collide.

Ariel is raised on an isolated farm in New Zealand. She's tough but when she's blamed for an accident for which she has no recollection, her world implodes. Ariel seeks refuge back at university in Dunedin where she prefers the company of old gold-miners bones to real people

Isbell is also tough and running from ghosts. As a young woman she has left behind depres...