Celine Richards is a young research assistant and grad student rethinking her life plans. When her boss invites her to join him on a trip to investigate claims of a cursed town, she decides that this will be the thing to help make up her mind. Dr. Jennings has been researching and theorizing about the New Winslow phenomena for years, but this time he has a contact within the town. Roman Beckett has been stuck for two years and is willing to join the experiment in exchange for potentially getting out from under the curse.

Celine doesn't know what she expects, but this prickly twenty-three year old liquor store clerk isn't it. Still, she's intrigued. He might even be willing to let Celine try to use her not-so-secret abilities in order to help him. Maybe. If she promises not to blow him up.

Off the Main Road is a prequel novella to the New Winslow series, featuring familiar characters twenty years earlier!