Adrian Hernandez didn't know he was on the highway to hell until it was too late and he found himself all alone working at a low-key internet cafe (those still existed?). Mainly to get his mind off of the most disastrous in the history of disastrous road trips, but also to kill time as he figured out what the hell to do next. Luckily for him, there was someone by the name of Alexis Blue who lived nearby that was kind of making his situation suck significantly less. Pros and cons, he supposed.

Knight Lucero has always been a prowler of the night, especially when his best friend Charlie became homeless. But when he meets a fellow "lunaholic" on the brink of death in the sludge of the LA river, he has to ask himself what the California Badlands have to hide besides teenage taggers and orphans on the run. With a runaway father that looms closer and darker than Knight could ever know, and a partially oblivious mother than drifts in and out of a drugged haze filled with secrets, Knight must find his way through gang-wars, betrayal, and things that go bump in the night. And through it all, learn who he really is and who he was always meant to be.