FREEDOM GOT HER THIS FAR. HE MIGHT BE WORTH STAYING FOR.

Quinn Barlow doesn't stop. Not for relationships, not for roots, not for anything that might ask her to stay small again. Two years ago she sold her Chicago life for a camper van named Biscuit and never looked back — motion is the only thing that's ever kept the panic at bay.

Then Biscuit's engine dies outside Moab, Utah, and the only mechanic who can fix it wants her to do the one thing she's spent two years avoiding: stop.

Wade Mercer sold his own van three years ago and never told anyone why. He built a quiet, controlled life in a town where nobody asks questions — and he intends to keep it that way, right up until a stranded stranger with seventeen contingency plans and a terrified smile shows up in his parking lot.

What starts as four weeks of forced proximity turns into something neither of them saw coming: late nights fixing another woman's dream truck, porch-step confessions under a crowded desert sky, and the particular danger of a man who makes staying feel like the safest thing Quinn has ever done.

But loving someone who runs and loving someone who stopped running both come with the same terrifying question: what if choosing this — choosing each other — means finally facing everything they've been driving away from?

The Long Way to You is Book One in the NOMAD HEARTS series — sweet, small-town-meets-open-road romance for anyone who's ever wondered if freedom and love have to be a choice.
Sweet romance — closed door
Grumpy mechanic x guarded free spirit
Forced proximity, one exasperating shop, one impossible timeline
Guaranteed happily ever after, no cliffhanger