When his girlfriend vanishes during a camping trip with friends in the Mojave Desert, her boyfriend refuses to give up. His desperate search leads him deep into the wilderness, where he uncovers something far stranger than he imagined: a secret military installation where reality and fairy tales seem dangerously intertwined. What happened to her in this bizarre place? Was her disappearance linked to something she witnessed? Find out what he discovers in Wormwood Book 1 China Lake.