The road delivered them to the ocean. Now they have to decide if they can stay.
Eli, Mason, and Riley left Durango with a broken-down truck and the weight of what they were running from. By the time they reach the Oregon coast, the truck is dead, the money is gone, and Eli's body is failing in ways he can no longer ignore.
Cooper - the dog Eli found and kept - turns out to have a past. A family searching for him. Returning him means losing the one solid thing Eli has left. Keeping him means living with an obligation he never asked for.
The road has narrowed to this: a small town, a stranger's kindness, and the question of whether arrival is harder than leaving ever was.
The Bare Horizon is the second book in the Wild Roads trilogy - a literary road novel about grief, grace, and what it means to stop running long enough to be found.