The Desert Waits

"As sharp and prickly as a desert cactus. Thoroughly entertaining."

---Carol Davis Luce, author of NIGHT STALKER

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, under the merciless sun, there is no place to hide.

Praise for J. Carson Black's DARK HORSE (writing as Margaret Falk)

"Should put Margaret Falk in the Winner's Circle."

---Tony Hillerman

"A terrific tale of murder and mayhem set on the quarter horse racing circuit in the American Southwest…Watch out, Dick Francis."

---J. A. Jance