From acclaimed horror and mystery writer Bruce Elliot Jones David Petrie and his wife Donna thought they were taking their sick young daughter Pepsi for a vacation to Las Vegas. But somewhere in New Mexico they lost their way—and found a ghost town named Clear Water that bustled along toward the celebration of the Fourth of July in grim fashion: a wolf boy stalking the night, burnt-up zombies with liquor and sex on their minds, and the horror of the strange mystery of a place stuck forever in the fifties, when something supernatural and unspeakable happened to its unsuspecting inhabitants! But when David and his family try to escape the flesh-ravaged mutants, the lone werewolf, and the leader of these diseased remnants, Herbie Hancock, who is the burly, unyielding force behind this sizzling, evil town, the Petries find that they are The Chosen Ones, selected to save the tiny village from its ill-gotten fate,and that all roads lead back to Clear Water... Praise for the novels of Bruce Elliot Jones: “WILL SET PLENTY OF READERS HEARTS RACING. BRILLIANTLY ESTABLISHES A TERRIFYING HITCHCOCKIAN SCENARIO. GRIPPING…VIOLENT.”—Booklist “A SURE BET FOR SUSPENSE. JONES WRITES WITH A CLEAR EYE FOR CHARACTER…AND HAS A GIFT FOR PACING THE ACTION SO TIME SEEMS REAL AND PRESSES THE READER TO WHIP URGENTLY THROUGH THE PAGES.”—Library Journal “BREAKNECK PACING. A COMPLEX AND ABSORBING PLOT. ANOTHER POWERFUL WINNER FROM A STRONG, TALENTED WRITER.”—Harold Sunday (Portsmouth, NH) “RIVETING. A FINE TALE TAUT WITH SUSPENSE. A POWERFUL AND GRIPPING CLIMAX.”–Sunday Life “A WILD THRILLER.”—Chicago Tribune