num_pages: 376
description: For readers of Joe Hill Cormac McCarthy and classic Anne Rice a chilling tale of suspense and horror set deep in the Texas desert.Travis Stillwell spends his nights searching out women in West Texas honky-tonks. What he does with them doesnt make him proud just quiets the demons for a little while. But his nights soon take a terrifying turn in a desert cantina where Travis crosses paths with a mysterious pale-skinned girl in red boots. Come the morning he wakes weak and bloodied in his cabover camper no sign of a girl no memory of the night before.Annabelle Gaskin spies the camper parked behind her rundown motel and offers the disheveled cowboy inside a few odd jobs to pay his board. Travis takes her up on the offer if only to buy time to lay low to heal. By day he mends the old motel insinuating himself into the lives of Annabelle and her ten-year-old son. By night in the cave of his camper he fights an unspeakable hunger. Before long Annabelle and her boy come to realize that this strange cowboy theyve taken in is not what he seems.Half a state away a grizzled Texas ranger is hunting Travis down for his past misdeeds but what he finds will lead him to a revelation far more monstrous than he could ever imagine. A man of the law hell have to decide how far into the darkness hell go for the sake of justice. When these lives converge on a dusty autumn night an old evil will find new lifeand new blood.Deftly written and utterly compelling this is an atmospheric literary fiction debut perfect for fans of horror psychological suspense and Western fiction.
language: English
title: In the Valley of the Sun
publisher: Skyhorse