Genre: Mystery Thriller | Language: English - Six friends set off for one last road trip, hoping to reconnect and forget what happened years ago. But when they hit a strange stretch of highway that doesn't appear on any map, the past begins to bleed back into the present-literally.
One by one, they disappear. One by one, secrets come to light. And one name keeps echoing through the dark roads and bloodied memories: Lukas.
Some roads were never meant to be taken. Some ghosts never stay buried. And some sins can't be outrun-no matter how far you drive.
Welcome to your last ride.
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They thought it was just another road trip. It was a weekend of laughter, healing, and forgetting. But the road never forgets-especially when it's soaked in blood.
Erika Lozano, a med school dropout with a shattered past, reluctantly joins five old friends on a weekend escape to Quezon Province. It's been years since they last saw each other-years since the night they all swore to bury. What happened to Lukas was supposed to stay in the dark.
But strange things begin to unfold when they take a detour down a forgotten highway. Their van breaks down near a rest house that doesn't exist on any map. One of them disappears, and then another. A voice from the trees calls their names, but no one's supposed to know they're there.
The deeper they go, the clearer it becomes: this road is more than cursed-it's a mirror. And the slasher haunting them? He knows exactly what they did because he was one of them.
As secrets surface, confessions bleed out, and bodies drop, Erika and the survivors must face the ugliest truth of all: they left someone to die, and now the road won't let them go until they pay the price.
Some horrors aren't born from monsters. Some are made by people who chose silence over saving a life.
This isn't just a road trip.
It's a dead end.
Will she ever forgive them for abandoning her?
Will they ever be able to unveil her secrets?
Where was she for all those years?
This is story of a girl who was abandoned by her brothers when she was seven. Now, after 9 years, her brothers brought her back home. How will she deal with them, simultaneously dealing with the terrors that haunt her every night?
Sneak Peak-
Once we were out, I stopped and turned to face my blood relatives and said, "Okay, now that I am out you don't need to act anymore. Now, you guys can go back to your house and pretend that this never happened. I will go to my house and will make sure that we will not cross each other's path, even by accident."
I was about to turn back when Ezekiel held my elbow, stopping me on my track. I immediately snatched my hand back glaring at him and said,
"Do not ever touch me again." His eyes showed an emotion of hurt that I am sure I read incorrectly because one thing that Kensington brothers are incapable of was getting hurt by any outsider. And that was what I was. An outsider.
Sensing the tension in the atmosphere Aldric took it upon himself to say whatever his brother was about to.
"You are going with us." He spoke.
One thing about Aldric Kensington was that once he has made his mind, there is nothing in this world that can change his decision. This is the very quality of his that made my life a living nightmare, and this is exactly why I hate him more than any of my brothers.
"Let's go Athaliah," Ezekiel said this time.
That name. No one has called me by that name in six years. "My name is Zahra," I corrected and continued, "And I am not going with you."
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