"You are my son," he said. "Today they will try to change that. They will take you away and I won't see you again until you are as tall as I am. They will blame me for what they do to you, to turn you against your mother and me."Under the oppressive dictatorship of Dymorius, everyone in Gehenna is forced to live in the mines. Taken the day they turn six, they work as slaves until they reach adulthood, that is, if they survive. This is the account of Chanse and Chelly, twins who stumble upon their destiny... a way out.Catapulted into the world above, they make for a fabled country beyond their borders. But, when Dymorius finds that two young ones have fled, he has his own reason for hunting them down before they can Escape from Gehenna.A thrilling tale of adventure and suspense in the first of a series chronicling events in an age between myth and legend.