It is July in Nebraska. At McKibben's Mobil Station, prudently situated at the intersection of Highway 20 and Main Street, a lone passenger steps down from the bus. His name is Randall Hunsacker and he has arrived in Goodnight, a small-town Midwestern farming community, to escape events back home - a shooting, a car crash, a family in freefall. He has also come to change his destiny.
Even as Randall resists absorption into the town, he unwittingly becomes a part of it. To someone whose life is born out of tragedy, Goodnight promises a redemption of sorts. But in a country where the second hardest currency is a clutch of impossible dreams, such an outcome is as elusive as a fairytale in a world of nightmares.
