The best-selling author of Hunting Unicorns returns with a stirring
and suspenseful tale of love and the quest for freedom, vividly set in
the wild lands between Arizona and the Mexican border. On the run from
her claustrophobic marriage in London, Alice Coleman moves her two small
children to the American desert hoping to find the solitude she craves
but hadn't thought possible. But the vast and unruly southwest has room
for the dreams of more than one fugitive--from Benjamin, an abandoned
mining town's Mexican caretaker, to the immigrants who risk their lives
to cross the border, to the laconic cowboy Duval, who Alice finds
herself falling for. What seemed idyllic turns deadly as Alice must
decide how much she is willing to sacrifice in order to preserve not
only her freedom, but Benjamin and Duvall's as well. Building to a
blistering climax, Midnight Cactus is both a perilous love story and a
compelling exploration of the tension between unrealized dreams and the
pull of family.