"A rewarding and highly literate novel." -The New York Review of Science Fiction

Isobel Linden would like to forget her tragic past, but the past has followed her all the way to Bolivia. When the former violin prodigy shatters a statue of the demon "Tio," she receives a visit from Death himself. Trouble is, she's seen Death before. She can't outrun him forever.

Drawn to Enrique, her young Bolivian patron, Isobel discovers that Death is following him, too. Heir to a great mining fortune, Enrique is bound to "Tio," the demon who governs Bolivia's deadly mines. His family sustains itself...