After experiencing a mysterious detour on his way home from work that leads him to an ancient slot machine and a disturbing message, Jason Lahey's perfect life begins to unravel. His discovery of a brutal suicide will be the catalyst to his downward spiral of self-destruction. Unresolved regrets over his parents’ deaths haunt him while external threats called forth by the suicide will not only endanger him, but his family. Meanwhile, a larger global crisis awaits as the mysterious slot machine with its predictions of death and suffering looms over his neighborhood on an unmarked road in an abandoned field…waiting. Fortune Falls explores themes of mortality and the fragility of human existence against the backdrop of suburban middle America.