Imagine if: The Premise: Set in the late 1800s, a weary traveler seeking shelter in a remote mountain pass discovers a village that doesn't appear on any map. The inhabitants speak a dialect of Afrikaans that hasn't changed in centuries, and they claim the sun hasn't set outside their valley.

Abriam Naudt: Imagine if: The Premise: Set in the late 1800s, a weary traveler seeking shelter in a remote mountain pass discovers a village that doesn't appear on any map. The inhabitants speak a dialect of Afrikaans that hasn't changed in centuries, and they claim the sun hasn't set outside their valley.

Abriam Naudt: The peaks of the Swartberg mountains stood like jagged teeth against a bruising purple sky. Elias, a surveyor whose maps were proving increasingly useless, pushed his horse through a pass so narrow the stirrups scraped the stone. He was looking for a way station, but what he found.