From the creators of the wildly popular podcast comes an
imaginative mystery of appearances and disappearances that is also a poignant
look at the ways in which we all struggle to find ourselves… no matter where
we live.
Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great American Southwest, Night
Vale is a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies
are all commonplace parts of everyday life. It is here that the lives of two
women, with two mysteries, will converge.
Nineteen-year-old Night Vale pawn shop owner Jackie Fierro is given a paper
marked "King City" by a mysterious man in a tan jacket holding a deer skin
suitcase. Everything about him and his paper unsettles her, especially the
fact that she can’t seem to get the paper to leave her hand, and that no one
who meets this man can remember anything about him. Jackie is determined to
uncover the mystery of King City and the man in the tan jacket before she
herself unravels.
Night Vale PTA treasurer Diane Crayton’s son, Josh, is moody and also a shape
shifter. And lately Diane’s started to see her son’s father everywhere she
goes, looking the same as the day he left years earlier, when they were both
teenagers. Josh, looking different every time Diane sees him, shows a stronger
and stronger interest in his estranged father, leading to a disaster Diane can
see coming, even as she is helpless to prevent it.
Diane’s search to reconnect with her son and Jackie’s search for her former
routine life collide as they find themselves coming back to two words: "King
City". It is King City that holds the key to both of their mysteries, and
their futures… if they can ever find it.
