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Billy Shaw lives in a palace. Potter's Pleasure Palace, the best entertainment venue in Yorkshire, complete with dancing and swing-boats and picnickers and a roller-skating rink. Jasper Harper lives in the big house above the valley, with his eccentric mother, Edie, and Uncle Charles, brother and sister authors who have come from London to write in the seclusion of the moors. When it is arranged for Billy to become Jasper's companion, Billy arrives to find a wild, peculiar boy in a curiously haphazard household.

Lane's friend, Morgan, has fallen down a mine airshaft. In an attempt to save him, Larry becomes trapped as well. In the black inky darkness, Larry carries on a one-sided conversation hoping they both can stay alive until rescuers get to them. Meanwhile, Lane's mother and father are using this disaster to advance their own separate goals. Timing is everything! For the two below ground, time is running out and everyone knows it. For the two above ground, Lane's parents, well, time will tell!