One of Tor Nightfire's "Horror Books We're Excited About in 2022"!
"Lyons burnishes his reputation as a rising horror star . . . [and]
keeps the pages flying with fast-paced chills." --Publishers Weekly
(starred review)
From the author of The Night Will Find Us comes a white-knuckled
horror-thriller set across the American Southwest.
Road trips can be hell.
Siblings Jonah and Nell Talbot used to be inseparable, but ever since
Jonah suddenly blew town twelve years ago, they couldn't be more
distant. Now, in the wake of Jonah's divorce, they embark on a
cross-country road trip back to their hometown of Albuquerque, hoping to
mend their broken relationship along the way.
But when a strange accident befalls Nell at an abandoned industrial site
somewhere in the Nevada desert, she begins experiencing ghastly visions
and exhibiting terrifying, otherworldly symptoms. As their journey
through the desolate American Southwest reveals the grotesque change
happening within his sister, one thing becomes clear to Jonah: It's not
only Nell in there anymore.
Pursued by a mysterious stranger who knows far more about Nell's
worsening condition than they let on, the siblings race to find a way to
help Nell and escape the desert before they're met with a violent,
bloody end. But there are far worse things lurking in the desert
ahead... some of them just beneath the skin.
