"Originally published by Caravel Books, New York, in 2015 and subsequently in hardcover by Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group ... New York, in 2016"--Title page verso.
Summary:
Ben Jones lives a quiet, hardscrabble life, working as a trucker on Route 117, a little-travelled road in a remote region of the Utah desert which serves as a haven for fugitives and others looking to hide from the world. For many of the desert's inhabitants, Ben's visits are their only contact with the outside world, and the only landmark worth noting is a once-famous roadside diner that hasn't opened in years. Ben's routine is turned upside down when he stumbles across a beautiful woman named Claire playing a cello in an abandoned housing development. He can tell that she's fleeing something in her past a dark secret that pushed her to the end of the earth but despite his better judgment he is inexorably drawn to her. As Ben and Claire fall in love, spectres from her past begin to resurface, with serious and life-threatening consequences not only for them both, but for others who have made this desert their sanctuary.
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