Dust Devils

John Rivers came home to Gila Verde with forty-seven dollars, a card deck, and six months of parole to serve before he could get to Vegas. He wasn't planning to stay.Then the dust devils started moving wrong.They track vehicles on the highway. They follow fence lines with purpose. They stop at road boundaries like they're deciding something. And they kill — not like weather kills, but like something that has been waiting a very long time and has finally stopped being patient.Leonard Gregg knows what they are. His grandmother told him when he was twenty years old and made him carry the knowledge his whole life. He knows their name. He knows what they want. He knows what stopping them will cost.In a dying Arizona desert town, a disgraced man, a cautious sheriff, a history teacher who knows what it means to survive the dark, and an old man who has been ready for this his entire life are about to find out if the price is one they can pay.Some things sleep in the ground for a thousand years.Some things wake hungry. Read more