The Last Truck Stop: A Sci-Fi Horror Thriller

A lonely truck stop. A violet fog. Something waiting in the dark. First contact doesn't happen in a city. It happens at a lonely truck stop in the New Mexico desert. Deputy Brody Morgan expects a routine late-night call at the Waypoint: an intoxicated trucker, a tired waitress, a handful of stranded travelers waiting out the long hours before dawn. Then the radios die. The fog rolls in from the west. And something vast settles above the truck stop, pulsing violet light through the desert night. Cut off from the world, Brody and the survivors barricade themselves inside the diner as figures move through the fog outside-watching, learning, testing every weakness. The creatures don't rush. They don't need to. They study the windows. They mimic familiar voices. They wait for fear, grief, and exhaustion to do what claws cannot. But Brody Morgan has survived war, county roads, and the hard arithmetic of keeping people alive when every choice has a cost. With only work lights, road flares, a dying generator, and the grit of strangers under pressure, he must turn an ordinary truck stop into a last line of defense. The night is long. The fog is full of things. And dawn is still a long way off. The Last Truck Stop is a tense first-contact survival thriller for readers who love alien horror, locked-room suspense, and ordinary people forced into extraordinary courage.

Pages: 192, Paperback, Independently published