Black Ice Highway

Maren Caldwell's Tesla dies at 12:07 a.m. on a frozen stretch of Route 7, stranding her in the killing dark between a violent snowstorm and a predator who has been waiting for her. With her battery bleeding the last of its charge and her phone signal swallowed by the wilderness, she has minutes, not hours, to make the choices that will decide whether she walks away. Her only allies are a bitter ex-lover, a volatile stranger, and a family whose patriarch, Calvin Sutter, seems to know far too much about why her car failed on that exact mile of asphalt. As the temperature drops, so do the masks. Eli March reveals a violent streak that puts everyone at risk, while his brother Hollis and the unsettling figure called Sutter spin competing versions of a decades-old crash that left a family shattered and a fortune unaccounted for. Tuck Bray, the man she abandoned years ago, may be the only one who can help her reach help, if she can trust him again before the ice does its work. Each mile marker brings a new revelation and a new threat, and the black ice beneath her tires is the least of her dangers. By the time the sun rises, Maren will have to choose between the truth she's spent her life running from and the people she'll have to leave behind on the road. On Route 7, the highway always collects what's owed.