Chapter 1Linda Vista, NM
Late May
Justin Dunne rose from the cracked vinyl seat and dragged his bulging suitcase out from beneath it. He grimaced at the dirt his luggage had picked up from the filthy floor. The grungy, smoke-belching bus had seen better days. So had he. Coming back this way to the dirty little desert town he’d left precipitously over a decade ago was not a decision he’d made lightly or willingly.
He was simply out of options. With his unemployment running out, he could no longer pay rent on his upscale condo in Phoenix. He’d already sold his Beemer to last as long as he had, sure another job would open soon. None did. The old beater he’d bought to get around died. All at once, he found himself out of choices and chances.
Here, unless something had happened no one had s
