The Road To Pine Valley

The heavy tires of the shiny black SUV hummed a relentless rhythm against the asphalt, eating up the endless miles of remote Montana highway. Evie leaned her head against the cool, tinted glass of the rear window. Dense, towering green pines blurred past in a dark smudge, swallowing the world she knew behind them.

Three miserable months had dragged by since the night she packed her busted suitcas