Ben Jones is an honorable but down-on-his luck truck driver on a lonely Utah highway. When he stumbles across a beautiful woman named Claire playing a cello in an abandoned housing development, he can tell that she's fleeing something in her past, but despite his better judgment he is inexorably drawn to her. Dangerous men come looking for her, and as they turn Route 117 upside down in their search, the long-buried secrets of those who've laid claim...

Winter has come to Route 117, a remote road through the high desert of Utah trafficked only by eccentrics, fugitives, and those looking to escape the world. Local truck driver Ben Jones, still in mourning over a heartbreaking loss, is just trying to get through another season of treacherous roads and sudden snowfall without an accident. But then he finds a mute Hispanic child who has been abandoned at a seedy truck stop along his route, far from civilization...

"It's been ten years since Val Riggs saw the sun swallowed up by darkness. Ten years since nearly everyone she knew was infected and changed into hideous 'shades' -- know the signs: black gums, gnarled bones, and haunting yellow eyes. The only way to survive is to stay close to artificial light. Now a 'ferryman' providing transport for people and goods, she traverses the deadly unlit roads in her eighteen-wheeler, taking on whatever evils the night...