Four years after an unfinished goodbye, Tessa Quinn boards a first-class sleeper out of Los Angeles looking for quiet miles and a coast that won't ask questions. The roomette is small. The ticket is simple. Then a knock she still knows by rhythm.

Reid Lang is standing in the corridor with the same car, the same room, the same four days of track. What should have been a clerical error becomes a locked door, two berths, and nowhere to put the past.

As the train follows the sun-drenched Pacific past Santa Barbara, old wounds surface in clipped sentences and accidental touches. She remembers why she left a key on the counter. He remembers why he watched from behind the glass and called it respect. The ocean keeps glittering. The room keeps shrinking.

Forced into shared mornings, shared silence, and a sunset bottle of wine, they finally admit the breakup never ended. It only paused. The pull between them is still there, sharp and familiar. So is the fear that love will go still the moment it actually matters.

When night closes in and the berths sit too close, one unfinished kiss threatens to become the only story either of them has left. Tessa refuses a rerun. Reid refuses another curb vigil. Four days isn't enough to rebuild a life. It may be enough to decide whether they keep running from each other once the rails turn inland.

Can two people who failed in a house with a broken porch swing choose each other in a moving room before the coast disappears?

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Four thousand miles of shifting landscape outside the window. Four days with nowhere to go. The 96 Hours 4000 Miles Across America series runs the standalone steamy contemporary romances along the legendary luxury rail route from Los Angeles to New York.

Each book drops a new couple into the intimate confines of a first-class sleeper car, sunny Pacific coasts giving way to blistering desert, then snow-capped peaks, then the hum and press of city skylines. The clock ticks. The miles accumulate. There's nowhere to hide from what's building between them.

Explosive passion, unforgettable love, and a transcontinental journey that changes everything.

Your train is boarding now.