Mary and Peter Jackson, the Carver family, and aging novelist John Marinville are on their way to different destinations, but first they must pass through the town of Desperation, Nevada and for some of them it will be the end of the road.

"The agent in charge of northern Nevada's IRS office, Ronald Soranden, has been missing for almost three months when his skull is dropped into the slashed top of a Mustang convertible, owned by PI Mortimer Angel's assistant. Though he is working on an unrelated embezzlement case, Mort is again thrust into the national spotlight. But the more progress Mort makes on his routine case, the closer he gets to Soranden's murder--and to the most lethal situation...

Lieutenant Jonathan Stride discovers hidden secrets of his own life as he investigates the disappearance of two teenage girls off the street of Duluth, Minnesota.

During a massive blackout in rural Nevada, two brothers struggle to survive without their self-reliance-obsessed dad and without enough water cross the desert for help.

Follows ninety-two-year-old Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane, as she joins her former tenant Brian on a road trip to Nevada where she attends to unfinished business she has long avoided.

"Adam Rubenstein and Sunil Rao have been nemeses and reluctant partners since their Uzbekistan days. Adam is a seemingly unflappable American Intelligence officer and Rao is an ex-MI6 agent, an addict and rudderless pleasure hound, with the uncanny ability to discern the truth of things--about everyone and everything other than Adam. When an American diner turns up in a foggy field in the UK and is followed by a mysterious death, Adam and Rao are...