Pick Me Up
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“ARE YOU SURE you know what you’re doing?â€
Lauren Baker watched the road before her with no small bit of fear. She was just south of Tucson, and to say the route curling down into the desert canyon was steep was an understatement. Raised in Connecticut, she’d never in her life encountered such death-trap roads as she was discovering in Arizona. It wasn’t exactly the time, and definitely not the place, to be distracted by the question her best friend, Becky Saunders, had asked her this morning when they’d spoken on the phone.
Was she sure? Hell, no. That was the whole point. She was a week and a half into her no schedule, no destination, no obligations trip around the coun- try. She had a map, two credit cards, her cell phone and what clothes and extras fit into the trunk of her Toyota Corolla. Everything else—not that there was a whole heck of a lot—she’d l ... read full excerpt from Pick Me Up ebook
