Jones imagines an alternate-history saga that, like its Australian Outback airborne miners, sweeps and glides with the romance of flight. Its hardscrabble fantasy colony is so richly conceived, so lushly peopled, that it feels like God's honest truth. At heart, it's a tale of brotherhood and human dignity that rises high above an unforgiving world. --Derek Nikitas, author of Pyres, The Long Division, and Extra Life A compelling mystery out of the Australian desert, Jones' proletarian narrative excites the imagination. In the wake of WWI, beneath a code of silence and hard labor, these characters toil in a mist-saturated mining community. When a Zeppelin crash cracks the strict order of their austere camp, they question everything, from the fiber of their human connections to the certainty of their moral compasses. Jones delivers a tightly braided narrative and a heroine full of surprises--a woman capable of saving herself. The Mists of Arltunga soars! --Julie Hensley, author of Landfall: A Ring of Stories, The Language of Horses, and Viable.