PROLOGUE            

The city of Santa Martina has some odd ducks swimming in its waters. There’s Madame Nashira, the fortune-teller who lives in the Heavenly Hotel. There’s the Elvis impersonator who works nights at Maynard’s Market. There’s the Psycho Kitty Queen, who used to be a beauty queen but now has a gazillion cats and looks like a ninety-year-old Barbie.

We’ve also got a cockeyed taxidermist, a whole school of pro-wrestling maniacs, Dusty Mike, who hangs out at the graveyard, and a hunched old lady who likes to walk her two-hundred-pound pet pig.

And that’s not even taking into account all the bikers and gang guys and—Oh yeah! How could I forget?

Heather Acosta.

So, really, I thought I’d seen it all. I thought this crazy town couldn’t surprise me with anything new.

And then I met Justice Jack.