Battle Trucker

All that stands between long-haul trucker Jill MacLeod and her family in Boston is two thousand miles of asphalt — and the monstrous game the System has had her playing ever since it descended on Earth. Behind the wheel of a turreted forty-ton semi named Bertha, Jill hammers east from Montana through a gauntlet of chomping, hissing, rabid creatures. She isn't alone for long: hitching a ride are stranded brothers Babu and Ras Bati, and Mia Williams, a school nurse with a rotary cannon and a crateful of ammo. Arriving in Billings, they find a city in chaos under a self-appointed psychopathic mayor using the monster-ravaged ruins for his own ends. Jill hasn't come this far to be blindsided by a human. The System is watching, Bertha is transforming, and Jill and her crew will do anything to keep the terror in the rear view.

Ever since the System brought magic and monstrous mayhem to Earth, long-haul trucker Jill "Junkmouth" MacLeod has had a need for speed. The highway snaking through the Midwestern plains is the battleground, and the stakes are the lives of not only Jill but thousands of survivors along for the ride. For every blood-hungry abomination Jill has flattened into roadkill, she's gained experience, levels, and loot to upgrade Bertha, her mega-upgraded Soulbound big rig. But it's still a long and dangerous road to the East Coast — and the magic keeps growing more powerful, making everything, even the plants, deadlier and smarter. Inside the cab, a darkness is taking root among the passengers, including those Jill counts on most. Used to taking on the open road alone, she'll have to learn to lead.