Award-winning writer Annie Reed likes to scare us, charm us, haunt us, and make us fall in love. She does all of that and more in this collection of stories set in her home state of Nevada.

A lonely desert highway provides the backdrop for a mother and daughter facing an uncertain future in "Night Passage." A simple day at a man-made lake turns out to be anything but in "Lady of the Deep." In "For a Few Lattes More," a barista encounters a hero from her childhood, while a former party girl faces the toughest decision of her life in "Bait." Life in witness protection takes a sudden left turn for a former hitman in "Night of the Cruisers." Luck runs cold for the petty thief of "Strike Two," while the world itself chills down for the old motel owner of "One Sun, No Waiting." And in "Love Among the Llamas," a woman finds unexpected romance waiting around a bend in the road.

Praise for "Night Passage"

"A lovely story about a mother and a teenage daughter stranded on one of the scariest roads in America. Sensitively and nicely done." —Kristine Kathryn Rusch, author of THE RETRIEVAL ARTIST series

Praise for "One Sun, No Waiting"

"Annie Reed draws a pitch-perfect portrait of the Nevada desert and peoples it with folks so real I want to drive out by Vegas and try to find the Forty Winks Motel and check up on how everyone's doing. Its quiet voice and fast pace weave together to make any reader care." —Cindie Geddes, author

"A friend recommended the works of Annie Reed. I was not disappointed." —Carol Davis Luce, author of NIGHT GAME

"The appearance of a new Annie Reed story is a treat. Try one and you'll be hooked." —Dave Hendrickson, author of CRACKING THE ICE