from the creators of the wildly popular welcome to night vale podcast comes an imaginative mystery of appearances and disappearances that is also a poignant look at the ways in which we all struggle to find ourselvesno matter where we livelocated in a nameless desert somewhere in the great american southwest night vale is a small town where ghosts angels aliens and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life it is here that the lives of two women with two mysteries will convergenineteenyearold night vale pawn shop owner jackie fierro is given a paper marked king city by a mysterious man in a tan jacket holding a deer skin suitcase everything about him and his paper unsettles her especially the fact that she cant seem to get the paper to leave her hand and that no one who meets this man can remember anything about him jackie is determined to uncover the mystery of king city and the man in the tan jacket before she herself unravelsnight vale pta treasurer diane craytons son josh is moody and also a shape shifter and lately dianes started to see her sons father everywhere she goes looking the same as the day he left years earlier when they were both teenagers josh looking different every time diane sees him shows a stronger and stronger interest in his estranged father leading to a disaster diane can see coming even as she is helpless to prevent itdianes search to reconnect with her son and jackies search for her former routine life collide as they find themselves coming back to two words king city it is king city that holds the key to both of their mysteries and their futuresif they can ever find it