Through the creators from the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes an imaginative mystery of appearances and disappearances that is also a poignant look at the ways that we all struggle to look for ourselves…no matter where we live.

“Hypnotic and darkly funny . . Belongs to a specific stress of American gothic that encompasses The Twilight Area, Stephen King and Twin Peaks, with a bit of Tremors tossed in.”–The Guardian

Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the about Welcome to Night Vale: A Book great American Southwest, Night Vale is a small town where spirits, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life. It is here the fact that lives of two women, with two mysteries, will converge.

Nineteen-year-old Night Vale pawn shop owner Jackie Fierro is definitely granted a paper proclaimed “KING CITY” by a incomprehensible man in a tan jacket holding a deer skin suitcase. Everything about him and his paper unsettles her, specifically the actual fact that she can’t appear to get the paper to keep her hand, which nobody who meets this guy can remember anything about him. Jackie is determined to uncover the secret of King Town and the man in the tan coat before she herself unravels.

Night Vale PTA treasurer Diane Crayton’s kid, Josh, is moody in addition to a shape shifter. And lately Diane’s began to observe her son’s father everywhere she will go, looking the same as your day he remaining years earlier, if they had been both teens. Josh, searching different every time Diane sees him, displays a more powerful and stronger curiosity about his estranged dad, leading to a tragedy Diane can easily see coming, even as she actually is helpless to avoid it.

Diane’s search to reconnect with her child and Jackie’s seek out her former routine life collide as they find themselves returning to two words: “KING CITY”. It really is Ruler City that holds the key to both of their mysteries, and their futures…if they can ever find it.