Never Count Out the Dead

In a California desert, a woman guns down a 26-year-old sheriff while her daughter watches in terror. By sunrise, the victim lies clutching at the stones of his shallow grave, while mother and child fishtail off on a journey that will someday bring them back here again.

All her life, Shay Storey has been terrified of her mother, Dee -- of her speedball violence, her beautiful madness, and white-knuckle love. Now, eleven years after she helped Dee kill a man in the Mojave, Shay has met that man again.

Once shot and buried, John Victor Sully has come back to California where a coterie of demons and avenging angels pick over the bones of his long-ago ruined life. There, in a valley of neon death, Sully will try to separate truth from lies, the damaged from the damned, and a daughter from the devil herself ...