Gwen is on the road, driving through Texas when she spots Annie on the side of the road, halfway sorta trying to hitchhike. Gwen picks her up. And both their lives change forever.

Annie is going after the money that she stole and was put into jail for stealing. And Gwen is at first on that journey not voluntarily, but, then as they get closer, she is in it for Annie, not just because of a gun on her or whatever.

Oh, and Annie's partners in crime, they don't really want to let Annie have the money, and they will go to lengths, yikes will they ever go to lengths to achieve that outcome.

I really liked the first two thirds of the story. It was weird at first to just have the two fugitives point of view, I'm a police procedural sort of reader (a lot of them), but, once I got used to it, it was fun to read from that point of view.

Unfortunately, when I hit the last third of the book, the tone and how tightly woven the story was, seemed to change. It was actually sorta jarring, and started partially when, out of almost nowhere came a weirdly forced anger subplot (Trixie stuff also contributed to it too).

I get why the author needed the story to twist and go a little longer, but, I just didn't like how it read on the page at all.

Still, the first part of the book was almost a five star, so, a two and a five makes for a solid three stars I think.

I was given this ARC by Netgalley on behalf of Bold Strokes Books. ( )