Jack Teller wants to disappear. A war-scarred ex-Marine with too many ghosts and not enough future, he lands in the Nevada desert at a decaying roadside refuge called the Widow's Hotel. But what begins as a search for solitude becomes something far more sinister.

Behind the bar, the elusive Widow watches all. In the smoke-choked common room, drifters whisper, gamblers bluff, and a suitcase full of cash lies beside a corpse in Room 212. When Jack stumbles into the aftermath of a brutal murder, he's thrust into a deadly spiral of secrets, deception, and a military conspiracy buried beneath sand and silence.

With danger closing in, and everyone a suspect—including the Widow herself—Jack must confront his past to survive the present. Because in this place, nothing stays hidden forever.

Noir-drenched and relentless, Victor Lane's debut grips like a desert heatwave and never lets go.