Dylan's Journey: Book One of the Evans Family Saga

Dylan knew that the boiler was about to blow apart and that if he didn’t act fast, he and the others in the pump room at the #3 mine would all die. The engine operator was panicking but had fallen in his haste to escape a scalding death, so Dylan lifted his heavy shovel as high as his twelve-year-old arms could manage and swung it in a fast arc to the thundering machine. It may kill him, but he had to try.
Even as the shovel’s steel head slammed into the machine, it would set in motion a series of events that would shape his entire life.