A Scattering of Jades

The great fire of 1835 has burned most of New York City's wodden downtown. Like many people, Archie Prescott thinks he has lost everything. His home is a smoldering ruin, his dead wife's body at his feet. And next to her is a child's corpse he assumes was his daughter. It seems like the end of everything. But it is only the beginning.
Meanwhile, Stephen Bishop guides tourists through the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. Stephen, a slave, wants nothing more than a world where the color of his skin doesn't deny his humanity. His fateful meeting with the chacmool leads him to believe that the promise it offers may bring him to such a world. Hardback.

Alexander Irvine
ISBN: 0765301164
2002
475 pages, Hardbound