Never Count Out the Dead

In a California desert, a woman guns down a 26-year-old sheriff while her daughter watches in terror. By sunrise, the victim lies clutching at the stones of his shallow grave, while mother and child fishtail off on a journey that will someday bring them here again.

All her life, Shay Storey has been terrified of her mother, Dee-of her speedball violence, her beautiful madness and white-knuckle love. Now, eleven years after she helped Dee kill a man in the Mojave, Shay has met that man again.

Once shot and buried, John Sully has come back to California as a coterie of demons and avenging angels pick over the bones of his long-ago ruined life. There, in a valley of neon death, Sully will try to separate truth from lies, the damaged from the damned-and a daughter from the devil herself...

Author Biography: Boston Teran's debut novel, God is a Bullet, was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel and winner of the John Creasey Memorial Dagger for Best First Novel. He was born in the South Bronx and now lives in Los Angeles.