The two meet on a bus, both traveling for different reasons and not wanting to interact with other people, yet somehow feel a magnetic pull towards each other. An easy friendship develops over the hours of traveling and an unexpected turn of events launches them into not only a bus ride to nowhere but a road trip to discovery, coming of age and true you guessed it: Love.

Not expecting to like this as much as I did, I was really surprised that 3/4 of this book rendered me speechless- as in love with the story-line speechless-  I loved the way these characters connected, I loved the slowly developing but enigmatic chemistry of the relationship and I adored the plot when it centered around an epic road trip that would change both characters for the good, you know that whole I met my soul mate on a bus thing.

Yup, I loved this until about the last 75 pages when my road trip turned into a mix of cheap motel sex, Country Strong and My Sisters Keeper, morphing the story and the characters into new ones. The sex scenes and addition of they may become Americas next Country stars, were weird. By weird, I  mean I knew these characters at some point were going to collide but when it happened I was like -Whoa- the unexpected "porno-vibe" and there after talk of domination and rape like fantasies didn't fit with the dynamic of the romance that was building in the beginning. I wanted sweet, I wanted tender, but what I got was dirty and a little nasty. D&A works for some stuff, but in this case it just left me with mixed feelings and feeling kinda embarrassed for the characters, due to the fact that instead of a reader I felt like a voyeur and that my friends ruined part of the story for me.