Contains war content and strong language.

A long-haul trucker drives the night shift on I-85 with a dead friend riding shotgun and a war starting back up on the radio. Max has pills for the panic attacks, an audiobook on meaning, and a phone call home he's not ready to make. Then a stranger dies in his arms at a truck stop, and the bill for someone else's kid comes due.

Four years before the Turning. A story about debt, ghosts, and the math of going back.

Faithful has been tending the dead at Memorial Acres for longer than most people have been alive. He digs the graves, witnesses the grief, and protects and keeps the grounds. The world and its grief continue to change, and so does Faithful.

John Franklin has surrounded his farmhouse with homemade landmines. In the post-Turning, only one thing matters - survival. The Union has fallen and Amity has arisen with its mutated human-hunting drones. John has done all he can do to prepare. To survive. To watch the road for what might be coming.