Dead Miles

Some rides do not have a destination. Sloane Briggs is exhausted, broke, and one bad week away from losing the car she needs to survive. When her younger brother Isaac calls from outside a closed grocery store during a violent storm, she knows exactly what she should do. Turn around. Get him. Go home. Then a premium rideshare fare appears. One pickup. One good payout. Then Isaac. That is what she tells herself. The passenger is listed as D. Miles. He waits near an abandoned station in the rain, carrying an old briefcase and wearing a dark hat. When Sloane reaches the pickup, he appears in her back seat without opening the door. The app gives only one destination. Continue. Soon the road behind her is gone. The map stops making sense. A black semi follows through the storm with its high beams fixed on her car. Every exit leads somewhere worse. And Isaac keeps calling from a place Sloane can no longer reach. The miles are adding up. So is the cost of the choice she already made. DEAD MILES is a fast, emotional supernatural road horror novel about guilt, survival, and the terrifying distance between almost there and too late.