A girl trapped with a gang of dangerous drug-runners tries to escape, but finds herself up against the seductive charm of the gang leader and her own dark fantasies.

Headed out to a last getaway before college starts, KIRA and her high- school sweetheart,TYLER, are on a Greyhound bus that is ambushed by a gang of small-time delinquents on a joyride across Texas. The gang lets all the passengers go, except Kira and Tyler. The leader of the gang, BAHRI, is the youngest of the group. He's a disarming sociopath with the deepest blue eyes.When Bahri ties Kira to the handrail, she's painfully aware that her sweat-drenched tank top leaves nothing to the imagination, until Bahri gives her his jacket. The intimacy sends goose bumps down her spine. Trapped on a bus in the middle of the desert, in close quarters with Bahri for days on end, Kira is forced to join in the gang's petty crimes to earn her share of food and water. It plunges her into a sexual, adrenaline- fueled awakening, which every inch of her body tells her is wrong. How can she have feelings for this criminal when she's in love with Tyler, the nicest guy on the planet? Kira's most dreaded fear, or her deepest, darkest desire is confirmed when she forces Bahri to explain why he's keeping them and he tells her "Until you agree to sleep with me". As the journey progresses, the gang's joyride turns nasty, with a botched heist that leaves a man dead. With the cops hot on their trail, escalating tension between the gang members culminates in Tyler selling Kira out. Betrayed by her boyfriend, yet feeling more alive than ever, Kira needs to come to terms with her conflicting needs and figure out who her real captor is before she can find true freedom.—D.P