When an ex-soldier named Raheem survives a fatal car crash that claims the life of a Hollywood screenwriter, he inherits more than a stranger's phone - he inherits a story. Inside the device lies an unfinished script called The Desert Trap, a haunting narrative that mirrors his own past and the ghosts he's tried to forget. As Raheem unravels the mystery behind the writer's death, he's drawn into the life of Maranda, a sharp-tongued artist wrestling with her own grief - and into a web of secrets more personal than he ever expected. -Told through three intertwined voices, The Desert Trap is a powerful meditation on trauma, art, and redemption a story about the damage we carry and the stories that set us free.