PROLOGUE

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.