Leaving Home

When you're 18, life gets complicated

Miranda has always been the "good" girl: good grades, good manners, good grief. She's so tired of always doing the right thing — and waiting for her real life to start. That's when her friend Kirsten suggests something radical: why not blow off college for a year and travel across the country instead? No rules, no maps, just two girls on the road. It's a crazy plan, one that good girl Miranda would never even think of doing. Which is exactly why she says yes. But Miranda's about to find out that your troubles have a way of following you, no matter how far you run.

Stephanie Dovon has worked as ghostwriter for several popular teen series. Her own young adult series, On the Road, was published by Simon Pulse in 1999. The Greatest Man in Cedar Hole is her first adult novel. She currently lives in Maine.