The scene opens as soon-to-be valedictorian, headed to Brown University in the fall, good girl Veronica Clarke sits in a bathroom stall waiting on the results of a drugstore pregnancy test. Just as the double pink lines appear someone else enters the high school bathroom, and a panicked Veronica drops the stick . It comes to rest in the middle of the bathroom floor where none other than Bailey Butler picks it up.
Now someone else knows the truth. Perfect Veronica Clarke is not so perfect after all. Bailey promises to keep Veronica's secret. After all they had once been best friends. Now Veronica hangs out with the cool kids, and Bailey, seen as a weird social outcast, sits alone in the cafeteria every day. All Veronica knows is having a baby will ruin every thing. She watched her own sister disappoint their parents and marry a guy she didn't really love.
It doesn't take Veronica long to decide her only option is abortion. With the decision made, she needs to tell her boy friend Kevin and figure out how to get to the nearest abortion clinic, almost 1,000 miles away, that doesn't require parental permission.
Using the annual exam study session at a friend's cabin as cover for the necessary long weekend road trip, Veronica begins to make plans. Kevin's reaction to her news comes as a surprise and she quickly realizes he is not the one to drive her to her clinic appointment. After some thought, she approaches her former best friend Bailey in hopes that the offer of cash and a fully paid road trip will convince her to help. They strike a deal and the trip begins.
Writing duo Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan take readers on a wild ride as Veronica and Bailey embark on the trip of a lifetime. Stolen cars, a hired limo, a crazy ex-boyfriend, a ferret, and a strip club are just a few of a string of nutty situations the two encounter as they tick off the miles from Missouri to New Mexico. Friendships old and new, self-discovery, and abortion are themes that will have readers thinking well beyond the last page.
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