Set between worlds, Cold Highways is the dramatic story of ordinary people drawn together by the events that claimed their lives.
Somewhere there is a place without hope, a bleak and desolate hell known only as the Plateaus. This is where the people of Shrive have built there home and it is here that Tristen’s journey begins.
With the help of a retired cartographer and a stranger calling himself The Tracer, Tristen must leaves the cities behind him, pushing out into the deadly wilderness beyond.
Meanwhile, Larry Crest awakes by the roadside in the twisted wreck of a car – the sole survivor of a horrific accident. By impossible odds he is alive and unharmed, stumbling from the wreckage with the only clue he has to his past - a battered briefcase, covered in scars.
As Larry struggles to learn of the events that brought him here, it seems his path is somehow inexorably linked with the prisoners of that other place. There are bonds and bridges that cannot be severed, as all the while a far crueller soul tears through the desert with a gun in his hand...