The Characters

of The Desert King

When the chips are down and the desert is big and sun is hot and the storms are brewing and the hunters just keep coming, all these five friends will have is each other—and their secrets.

Jack Trexlor

Perpetual anti-hero, Jack is 23, dreaming as an artist, working as a bartender, and looking for adventure. Somehow, Jack always ends up getting more than he bargained for, and plenty to feel guilty about. He will find all that and more in the desert.

Macy Barnes

A childhood friend of Jack’s, Macy is working to set himself up in a new life in Phoenix. Since he saw Jack last, he has grown fond of high-adrenaline games—and the desert.

Sharon Barnes

Macy’s high-school sweetheart, now his wife. She is not happy with Macy, not happy about being pregnant, not happy about being in Phoenix. And she knows Jack’s secret. One of them, anyway.

John Lupo

First a co-worker, now a fast friend of Macy’s, this enigmatic Navajo man has a quick mind, deep wisdom, a generous heart, and a most amazingly steadfast outback hat.

Erica Bailey

She has been a nurse at the VA hospital for a few years, and John’s girlfriend for a few months. Try as he might, Jack can’t seem to stop looking at her—no matter how much trouble it brings.

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