A Black and Endless Sky by Matthew Lyons

Jonah and his sister, Nell, haven’t spent much time together over recent years. Jonah split, leaving their hometown—and the person he used to be—behind. And Nell was part of that. But now Jonah and his wife are splitting up and he’s decided it’s time to return to his old home. And Nell is going with him for the ride. 

Their relationship is icy, at best, and not made any better when Nell picks a fight at a biker bar soon into their drive. But it’s what happens next that really changes things. 

Jonah finds his sister alone in a cave on an abandoned work site. And the Nell that comes out of that cave is not exactly the same Nell that went in. 

Before Jonah can worry too much about what happened to Nell, he realizes people are following them on their drive. People who believe in justice outside of the law. People who aren’t going to let Jonah and Nell get away under any circumstances. 

Matthew Lyon’s latest is literally the family road trip from hell!

Jonah is hiding things. Things he never wanted to think about ever again. But when he and his wife decide to call it quits and he teams up with his sister to drive him and his belongings from San Francisco to Albuquerque, the things from his past become all but unavoidable. 

This is in part because of Nell, who knew the Jonah he used to be and pushes for that Jonah’s return. So much so that she almost immediately gets them into a really hairy scrape! 

But that was Nell in all her glory. The old Nell. 

The new Nell is something altogether different. 

Once close siblings, the two have fallen so far apart that he doesn’t initially see just how much Nell has changed. But Nell knows something is wrong. And with a narrative that changes points of view between Jonah, Nell, and others, the reader is all too aware that something strange happened that night in the dessert. 

Lyons doesn’t pull any punches with the violence or gore. He embraces it from the start, making A Black and Endless Sky a brutal and completely chilling horror story! 

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