Perdido Beach is a fictional town in south California (even though there is a real town named Perdido Beach in Alabama). It is where most of the Gone books are centered. Thirteen years earlier in Perdido Beach's history, a meteorite hit the power plant and spilled radiation hundreds of feet into the ground. Astrid believes that the people of the power plant just paved over it, unaware of what they were doing. Since then, hard radiation had been seeping into the water and food of the people of Perdido Beach. It has been described as a sort of deserty beach, complete with cliffs over the beaches, cacti, the town center, and housing.