Cover for Charlaine Harris's Midnight Crossroad (May 2014)

The cover for Charlaine Harris's next novel has been revealed (via Entertainment Weekly; right, click for larger image).

Titled Midnight Crossroad, it is the first in the "Midnight, Texas" trilogy of thrillers.

Here's the synopsis: Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town with many boarded-up windows and few full-time inhabitants, located at the crossing of Witch Light Road and Davy Road. It's a pretty standard dried-up western town.

There's a pawnshop (someone lives in the basement and is seen only at night). There's a diner (people who are just passing through tend not to linger). And there's new resident Manfred Bernardo, who thinks he's found the perfect place to work in private (and who has secrets of his own).

Stop at the one traffic light in town, and everything looks normal. Stay awhile, and learn the truth …

Midnight Crossroad will be published in hardcover and ebook formats in May, 2014, and may be pre-ordered.