A Waterstones Paperback of the Year and New York Times Bestseller, based on the number-one podcast "Welcome to Night Vale," a friendly desert town where the sun is hot, the moon is beautiful, and mysterious lights drift across the sky while the citizens pretend to be asleep. It’s a town like yours, with a town hall, a bowling alley, a diner, and a radio station that reports all the news that is fit to be heard. It might be more like your town than you want to admit. In this ordinary town, where ghosts, aliens, and government conspiracies are part of everyday life, the lives of two women with two secrets are about to collide. From the creators of the immensely popular podcast "Welcome to Night Vale" comes an original mystery about apparitions and disappearances that shows how we all struggle to find ourselves, no matter where we live.