Lucas Davenport s adopted daughter, Letty, is home from college when she gets a phone call from a woman Traveler she d befriended in San Francisco. The woman thinks somebody s killing her friends, she s afraid she knows who it is, and now her male companion has gone missing. She s hiding out in North Dakota, and she doesn t know what to do.
Letty tells Lucas she s going to get her, and, though he suspects Letty s getting played, he volunteers to go with her. When he hears the woman s story, though, he begins to think there s something in it. Little does he know. In the days to come, he will embark upon an odyssey through a subculture unlike any he has ever seen, a trip that will not only put the two of them in danger but just may change the course of his life."