After a couple years of hard traveling, ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her long-dead mother's home in a small town in New Mexico. And the closer Mona gets to her mother's past, the more she understands that the people there are very, very different.

Robert Jackson Bennett was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, the Sydney J. Bounds Award, and an Edgar Award, he is the author of the novels Mr. Shivers, The Company Man, The Troupe, American Elsewhere, the Founders trilogy, and the Divine Cities trilogy, which was a 2018 Hugo Awards finalist in the Best Series category. Find out more about the author at www.robertjacksonbennett.com.