Camelia is a recently orphaned teen who has to make it to her estranged grandparents' home in South Dakota or face foster care. But she's too young to travel alone, and she doesn't have enough money. Bear is Camelia's neighbor, an aging biker with a terminal illness who is determined to make one last run to the big Harley riders' meet in Sturgis. Camelia talks Bear into taking her along, since her grandparents live less than thirty miles from Sturgis. Together with Bear's younger sister and a friend, they take off on Harleys, planning on going the long way and soaking up the scenery. Things go well for a while, and it really is a dream vacation. Then people they meet start turning up dead. The group learns that a mass murderer known as the Northwest Killer is operating in the area. That's bad enough, but it soon becomes apparent that they are somehow psychically linked to the man. For Camelia, it becomes less a matter of reaching her grandparents than of simply staying alive. The Last Ride is a road novel. While technically a young adult book because of Camelia's age (14), adults who don't require sex or four-letter words in their reading material will probably find it an interesting read. The Last Ride is approximately 76,000 words or 270 print pages in length. There are excerpts from other novels at the end, which makes it appear longer to Amazon. There are a couple of lesbian characters in the novel. They're good characters and don't do anything you or I wouldn't do, but they are there, in case that matters.