Air's job has always been to wrangle her older brother, and this weekend is the most important mission of all; get him to their sister's wedding in time to sing the song he composed for her. But he's taken the wrong plane, and as she waits in the airport rumours start circulating; the plane went down. It's crashed into the sea. No survivors.

Determined to prove he wasn't on it, she starts out for the airport he was supposed to arrive at. Accompanied by a teenage boy who also has a relative on the missing flight, she crosses America in a desperate bid to save the wedding.


Road trip books are always strange for me; they're almost all set in a America, and I have only a very hazy idea of America's geography, so I never really know if the trip described is long, short, difficult or anything else. This one, though, very effectively conveys the sort of numb panic that sets in when there's literally nothing to do but keep moving forward. I did get a little confused about the timing...I was sure several days had passed in the car, but then someone comments that it all happened two days ago, but it can't have been that long. I was probably thrown off by the fact that the characters are sleeping at odd times and driving over date lines a couple of times.

I enjoyed this read very much and will look forward to selling it.