Seventeen-year-old Chloe Pierce, a ballerina from New Jersey, has been forbidden by her widowed mother to audition for the prestigious dance conservatory she dreams of — her mother wants her closer to home. With her mother away on a cruise, Chloe makes a secret plan: drive two hundred miles down the East Coast to the audition in Washington, D.C. The plan acquires passengers when her neighbor Eli Greene — handsome, loathed, and carrying a shared history with Chloe that neither has resolved — blackmails his way into the car, along with his dog, Geezer. Forest's debut is a road-trip romance about the distance between the future a parent plans and the one a daughter drives toward.
Author: Kristina Forest · Original publisher: Roaring Brook Press (New York), 2019
