The Road Between

One family. Two timelines. A lifetime of secrets.

What happens when you find out the person who raised you has been hiding a deadly secret your whole life? And what happens when your son discovers the one truth you hoped he would never learn?

In the present, seventeen-year-old Jay always thought he knew his mother. But when he discovers a hidden journal written in her handwriting, his reality shatters. The pages detail a single, breathless week one summer before he was born, a week she spent as a hostage on the run with a wanted criminal. A summer that changed her forever.

In the past, nineteen-year-old Lux is caught in a living nightmare when a solo road trip turns into a fight for survival. Taken hostage and forced onto the road with a wanted criminal, she expects a monster. Instead, as the miles blur together, the terrifying lines between captive and captor begin to blur, giving way to a complicated, unexpected intimacy. Forced to make impossible choices on the run, it is a breathless week that will rewrite her future - and forge the secrets she must carry forever.

Alternating between Jay's urgent search for answers and Lux’s gripping past, The Road Between explores the fragile boundaries of maternal love, the psychological cost of survival, and how far a mother will go to protect her child from her own history.