Ever hear of a haunted highway? None of them have shit compared to The Devil’s Driveway, a savagely haunted highway in Oregon. Livia, still reeling from a split from her partner, along with her three childhood friends decide to head out on a weekend getaway. After being trailed by a suspicious tow truck, the group take a shortcut that the GPS recommended. Unfortunately, that shortcut is also known as The Devil’s Driveway. Quickly, the friends realize something isn’t right as they start seeing things that aren’t really there, and having past memories make a terrifying appearance.

“It was only a road.”

Hitting shelves March 18th, White Line Fever is the much anticipated release from Bram Stoker award-nominated Author, KC Jones.

“Less like I’d stopped paying attention to the road and more like it had started paying attention to me. Was taking me someplace I did not want to go and there was nothing I could do to stop it.”

This story is told in a variety of parts, jumping from the present to the past, exploring Livia and her friend’s childhood, while they fight for their lives in the present. Our main characters are really fleshed out and there’s a lot of lore to go through. All of them come from trauma and bad experiences, which bonded them as children, but are coming back to haunt them in the present.

Livia experiences the weird moments first; a strange shadow in the woods, bugs that aren’t really there, hearing her father’s horrible voice. But as the group continues down this ‘shortcut’, they all begin to experience lost time and things that aren’t really there.

I won’t spoil what exactly haunts the highway, but it was a very cool concept that is a unique take on your usual spirit. As we start to speed into the final arc of the story, the visions and experiences really ramp up on the horror side. There’s some fantastic imagery that really brings the scares.

I will say, the book did drag its feet at first. It could’ve been a 100 or so pages less to be a bit more fast-paced. There was some repetitive moments throughout the middle slump of the book. But the beginning and the end more than make up for that. The ending especially was very gratifying as we cheer on Livia overcoming her past trauma while fighting the big bad.

“For now, nothing existed outside of this moment. The four of them, out there in the dark, in a place they were not allowed to be, doing things they were not supposed to be doing, laughing. The sound of their defiance rolled across the acreage like forbidden music as they stumbled about like witches dancing in the moonlight,”

White Line Fever by KC Jones is on shelves March 18th! A big thank you to Tor Nightfire for sending me a copy in exchange for a review.