"Somewhere in the endless stretches of high desert and dead fields, Sam came upon the town of Lyman... "

On July 11, 2015, seventeen year old Macayla Guffin went missing at a high school party in Lyman, Idaho.The police investigation that followed suggested she had run away to her home state of California.

Unconvinced, Macayla's mother enlists the help of ex-private investigator, Samuel Harper. Sam, who wants nothing more than to live a quiet life in his distillery in Seattle, finds himself at the mercy of an old debt and reluctantly agrees to help her.

Meanwhile, one of Macayla's classmates, Jesse Jensen, becomes torn between his religious upbringing and a budding illegal weed business he has started to make money for college. When Jesse offers to help Sam with his investigation, an unlikely partnership is formed.

As Sam and Jesse unravel the mystery of Macayla's disappearance, they become entangled in a sinister plot at the heart of Lyman. Battling both the dark influences of the town and their own vices, the two must risk everything to uncover the truth...

Philip Booker's debut novel releases January 17, 2020.