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The Loads We Carry
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Kenneth Thomas
Published: Sep 19 2025
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Cal has spent nineteen years hauling freight across the country and avoiding the one delivery that matters.
A phone call to the son he abandoned.
On the night of Jesse's birthday, exhausted and nearly out of driving time, Cal stops at a forgotten roadside station where a dead payphone rings with a warning meant only for him.
Do not go to sleep.
Back on the highway, Cal finds a young hitchhiker standing in the rain.
His name is Jesse.
He knows things no stranger should know. A childhood song. A faded thermos. The address Cal has carried above his visor for three years.
As the miles pass, the road begins pulling Cal through the wreckage he left behind. Clocks stop. Old memories take physical shape. A dark stranger offers him one final excuse to keep driving.
But the living son waiting at Mercy Road is no longer the boy Cal remembers, and an apology cannot return the years a father chose to miss.
Haunting, hard-edged, and deeply human, The Loads We Carry is a supernatural story about guilt, fatherhood, and the terrible distance between regretting what you have done and becoming a man who finally shows up.
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