There are roads that belong to the day. At night, they become something else.
In the early 1960s, along the isolated mountain border between Arizona and New Mexico, sixteen-year-old Jason thought he knew the dark. Driving home in his trusted '50s Buick after a local dance, the night takes a chilling turn when news breaks of an escaped convict on the loose.
Miles from nowhere, with no cell phones or roadside assistance, the fragile illusion of safety shatters when a tire blows out on a pitch-black stretch of highway.
Alone on the asphalt, working desperately in the shadow of the trees, Jason hears it: the rhythmic, accelerating cadence of footsteps jogging toward him out of the abyss. Panic takes over. He throws his tools into the car, slam-launches the Buick down the highway, and leaves the shadowy highway behind.
He thinks he made it out safe. He thinks his mind was playing tricks on him.
He was wrong.
Thanks For The Ride Kid is a gripping, true-to-life psychological thriller about isolation, terror on the open road, and the terrifying realization that the dark wasn't running behind him, it was already inside.
