Robert Essig – författare

Word travels slowly across a desert plane. By the time Blue arrived back to La Plateau after word that his family ranch had been taken over by marauders, he found another mystery plaguing the townsfolk. Three musicians have been singing death songs, terrorizing the locals.

Those who can leave are fleeing, but pride keeps others around, hoping a death song isn''t sung for them. Those unfortunates don''t make it through the night, and the aftermath is a testament to brutality.

After such a strange homecoming, Blue seeks guidance from an old flame. Louise uses her psychic abilities, but the cloud of darkness hanging over La Plateau is thick. The people are scared. Blue has to face the fears of an entire town and partner up with unlikely allies to have a chance at getting the family ranch back from a gang of psychopaths with one motive: vengeance against Blue. Who''s name will be on the lips that sing the next death song?

A group of young Spring Breakers headed for Lake Havasu take a sudden detour in the middle of the Mojave Desert. It will be a quick stop, he said. It won't take long, he said. It's hot. Over 100 degrees, and no one really wants to meddle around some sweaty desert caves a mile off the highway. Then something goes wrong and no one knows what to do.

Needles, California, a town in regression, home of semi-retired truck driver Big Vic. He's made a lot of mistakes in life and has vowed to make a change, starting by spending more time his adult daughter who has suddenly gone missing. Is it drugs, a kidnapping, murder? His investigation teams him up with an unlikely ally and he finds that tapping into his rough and tumble past is the only way to get answers.In the desert of Southern California is something of a phenomenon. Tucked away from passersby on Interstate 40 and widely unknown, a series of tunnels crisscross through the mountains, but they're not mine shafts or caverns. They're not teaming with bats and stalagmites. These tunnels are deliberate. Festering with something ferocious, something deadly. Something evil.What lurks within the Mojave Mud Caves?