It's 1971 and Dusty Roads, who just turned 21, has survived a training camp designed to break her-six brutal weeks of pain, endurance, and psychological warfare meant to strip her down and rebuild her into something sharper. Now she's back on the road, trying to stitch herself together and return to normal life. But normal doesn't last. A new case lands in her lap-one that looks clean on the surface and disturbing underneath. The deeper Dusty digs, the more the story shifts: someone is manipulating the truth, steering her toward the wrong conclusions... and watching to see how far she'll go. Dusty has fought too hard to be silenced now-but trust is collapsing around her, betrayal is coming from places she never expected, and the case is turning personal in ways she can't ignore. On this broken highway, survival isn't the finish line. It's the beginning.