From the creators of the #1 international hit podcast Welcome to Night
Vale comes an imaginative mystery of appearances and disappearances
that is also a poignant look at the ways in which we all struggle to
find ourselves . . . no matter where we live.
Welcome to Night Vale . . . a friendly desert community somewhere in the
American Southwest. In this ordinary little town where ghosts, angels,
aliens, and government conspiracies are commonplace parts of everyday
life, the lives of two women, with two mysteries, are about to converge.
Pawnshop proprietor Jackie Fierro abides by routine. But a crack appears
in the standard order of her perpetually nineteen-year-old life when a
mysterious man in a tan jacket gives her a slip of paper marked by two
pencil-smudged words: KING CITY. Everything about the man unsettles her,
especially the paper that she cannot remove from her hand. Yet when
Jackie puts her life on hold to search for the man, no one who meets him
can seem to remember anything about him.
Diane Crayton's fifteen-year-old son, Josh, is moody and a
shape-shifter. Lately, Diane has started to see the boy's father
everywhere she goes, looking the same as he did the day he left when
they were teenagers. Josh is growing ever more curious about his
estranged father--leading to a disaster Diane can see coming but is
helpless to prevent.
Diane's search to reconnect with her son and Jackie's search to reclaim
her routine life draw them increasingly closer to each other, and to
this place that may hold the key to their mysteries and their futures .
. . if they can ever find it.
