When Ella Tabernathy was 25 years old, the love of her life died in her arms. With a dead body on her floor, the murder weapon on a shelf in her cabinet, and a corrupt local police department with ties to the dead man, she has two options: run or die. Ideally, she'd go alone, dragging nobody down but herself. Her best friend, Jenna, has other ideas. When Noah Grantham was 25 years old, he fell in love. Foolishly, powerfully, secretly in love with his little sister's best friend, Ella. So when Jenna calls in the middle of the night and says Ella is in trouble, it doesn't take much to convince him to drop everything and run. Struggling to evade a powerful gang and a nation-wide man hunt, the three friends embark on an impromptu cross country road trip. Somewhere just west of the Mississippi, Noah realizes he's in a little over his head. Somewhere in the Rockies, Ella realizes she's not quite as powerless as she thought. And somewhere perilously close to the end of their journey, both of them realize that staying afloat is a hell of a lot easier when they're together. TRIGGER WARNING: This book contains pretty much everything, but most notably: sexual assault and domestic violence.