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Book Review of The Desert Waits

The Desert Waits
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A woman answers a terrified cry for help...A husband betrays his wife one last time...The owner of an isolated hotel harbors a dangerous obsession...A man succumbs to a fatal attraction...

They are four strangers whose lives converge on a lonely stretch of Arizona desert--four strangers brought together by the brutal murder of a beautiful woman. Each of them has a secret. And all of them have a reason to be afraid.

Now, someone else is going to die. For in the desert, beneath the cold, merciless moon, there is no place to hide.

An intriguing mishmash of rich rural atmosphere and Hollywood glitz--with murder in the middle. Action and characters as sharp and prickly as the desert cactus.