When a day trip out of Las Vegas with his wife takes a turn for the worse, Jack is sure he has the ability to get them home. <p/> But he has driven into something far beyond reason <p/> Rescue comes in the form of a desert hermit, but hope fades as the couple comes to realize that the nomad has no intention of letting them leave. A chance encounter with a kidnapped runaway and her crazed abductor leads them all farther into the wilderness -- and closer to the cold brutality that isolation brings. <p/> At the edge of his sanity, Jack begins to learn that playing by another's rules may be the only way to survive. <p/> In a voice that is as hypnotizing as a desert mirage, debut novelist Samuel Parker entices listeners down a treacherous road, where the forces of good and evil are as crushing as the Mojave heat.
