The Last Open Road

They opened a route through the wreckage. Now everyone needs it.

Fuel is moving again. Families are coming home. Across battered West Texas, towns that were running out of time finally have a reason to hold on.

But a working road draws attention—from desperate survivors, scattered American forces, and an occupying enemy that knows exactly what a supply line is worth.

Cal Bridger helped keep his neighbors alive. Protecting the road will demand more than diesel and determination. Every convoy carries something another town cannot afford to lose, and every promise puts someone else in danger.

Then a lead surfaces on Roy Benton, the driver who never came home.

Following it could bring Roy back. It could also put the communities depending on Cal's route at risk. With the country still fractured and control of the crossings becoming its own kind of power, Cal must decide what he can ask of the people who have already given so much.

The Last Open Road continues A. R. Shaw's Deep in the Ashes series—a story of invasion, survival, and ordinary people fighting to keep one another alive.