Bones of the Highway

Hayes Carver has one job: keep his highly volatile, metal-eating Scale-Hound fed, calm, and moving along the treacherous tri-kingdom caravan routes. But the heavily trafficked highway is fracturing, spitting up remnants of the massive, buried crime that built the allied cities in the first place. On the other end of the route is Penn Stafford, a saboteur who knows exactly whose bodies are petrified beneath the pavement, and who is methodically tearing the road apart to prove it. As their paths forcefully converge, Hayes must use every ounce of his grit and the bond with his dangerous beast to protect the trade route he relies on, while Penn leverages his intellect and traps to tear it down. Two highly capable men, fighting on opposite sides of a reawakening world where every mile costs blood.