The Mojave Desert. The heat of the noonday sun.A lonely stretch of highway.A screenwriter enjoys a nostalgic visit to his childhood home of Needles, California.But now it's time for him to leave that simple life in the desert and drive back home to L.A. and the lure of Hollywood. The highway isn't crowded - he hopes to make it home in time to join his wife for dinner. But apparently fate has a different idea.He suddenly finds himself being chased by a skeleton in a pickup truck who holds a terrifying secret that will change his life forever...A haunting new tale of horror from John Stewart Wynne, author of the acclaimed short story collection The Other World.