Part of No One Rides For Free, book 2
First published 2024
Spring break is winding down. A group of college students load back into their car for the drive home, and someone spots a roadside attraction worth a quick look. It costs them nothing to stop. It costs them everything to stay. Buster and The Man are already there. They are not tourists. They are not passing through. They are working, and the students have just become the job. What follows is a fight to survive against two killers who do not tire, do not hesitate, and do not have a ceiling on what they will do. The students are not trained for this. They are not brave in any movie sense. They are ordinary people who made one ordinary detour and now cannot find a way out. Co-written by Judith Sonnet and Otis Bateman, this book picks up where Sonnet's predecessor left off and then keeps going. The first book paused to warn readers about what was ahead. This one offers no such courtesy. The body count rises fast, the violence is specific, and no one is protected by plot armor. Luck ran out at the roadside, and the book does not pretend otherwise.
Genres: fiction, suspense, crime, horror, thriller, dark
Vibes: brutal, fast-paced, gritty, relentless, tension-filled, unforgiving
Tropes: high-body-count, no-plot-armor, ordinary-people-in-extraordinary-danger, relentless-antagonists
Setting: Roadside Attraction, Highway
Period: Spring Break
373 pages · Paperback · Independently published
Content warnings: death, gore, graphic-violence, murder