They booked a dream vacation. They drove straight into a nightmare.

David and Amy Carson needed this trip. A family drive through Colorado with their eight-year-old daughter Daisy — open roads, clean air, and a chance to outrun the grief that had been pulling them apart. They had no idea about the abductions. The murders. A cult that leaves no witnesses.

Hutson does something here that most horror writers can't pull off: he makes ordinary people terrifying to themselves. The Carsons aren't just running from something external. The highways of Colorado strip away everything they thought they knew about who they are — and what they're capable of.

By the final confrontation, the question isn't whether they'll survive. It's whether they'll recognize themselves if they do.

Read this if: you want horror that follows you off the page and into every road trip you take after.

They booked a dream vacation. They drove straight into a nightmare.

David and Amy Carson needed this trip. A family drive through Colorado with their eight-year-old daughter Daisy — open roads, clean air, and a chance to outrun the grief that had been pulling them apart. They had no idea about the abductions. The murders. A cult that leaves no witnesses.

Hutson does something here that most horror writers can't pull off: he makes ordinary people terrifying to themselves. The Carsons aren't just running from something external. The highways of Colorado strip away everything they thought they knew about who they are — and what they're capable of.

By the final confrontation, the question isn't whether they'll survive. It's whether they'll recognize themselves if they do.

Read this if: you want horror that follows you off the page and into every road trip you take after.