Publisher's Synopsis
From the author of the Wayward Pines Trilogy, comes this collection of short stories.
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Tim and Laura West receive a bizarre voicemail on their answering machine that seems to have unintentionally recorded a brutal murder. But what happens when the killer realizes their mistake? This story develops over one terrifying evening, and this young couple will never be the same.
Remaking
Tragic events unfold in a snowy, sleepy Colorado town. From the first scene, in which a man sits alone in the cold watching a father and son in a diner, you know something is about to go horribly wrong.
On The Good, Red Road
A group of four hard men trying to reach a remote nineteenth century mining town become stranded in an early blizzard and resort to drastic, terrifying measures to stay alive.
Shining Rock
An older couple encounter a strange and menacing visitor during a camping trip in the North Carolina mountains. Friendly at first, this stranger seems to know them, and their secrets.
Perfect Little Town
Ron and Jessica Stahl are a power couple from California on a Christmas holiday in Colorado. When they stop for the afternoon in sleepy Lone Cone, they're charmed by the quaint tourist town. But the folksy hospitality will vanish as the sun drops behind the mountains.
The Newton Boys' Last Photograph
At 25 words, the shortest story I ever wrote. But it packs a wallop.
The Meteorologist
Peter, a disgraced meteorologist and chronic wanderer, has traveled the country for years in his Winnebago, in search of the only thing that gives his life meaning. He's just arrived in the middle of nowhere--Hokie, Kansas--for the same purpose, but when he meets a waitress named Melanie, another sufferer, he's faced not only with his first real human contact in years, but perhaps someone who can save him.
Unconditional
A conversation between two people--devastating, tragic, and beautiful.
