The Last Route Home – Paperback

An empty school bus. A missing driver. A child no one realized was gone.

When Bus 27 is discovered abandoned above a Kentucky quarry, Detective Bonnie Hale expects a search for its missing driver. Instead, a strange alarm and conflicting route records lead her to an unauthorized stop-and a seventh passenger whose name never appeared on the driver’s list.

With a child’s whereabouts unknown and every answer pointing to another carefully altered record, Bonnie and the Bluegrass Casefiles team must follow a trail through back roads, hidden handoffs, and offices where responsibility always belongs to someone else.

In The Last Route Home, the most dangerous lie is the one that says someone has already brought you home.