Cleo Barwick’s mega-popular YouTube channel owes its success to her transparent and empowering approach to travel, but it’s built on long-buried secrets. When a corporate investor buys Cleo on the Tracks, Cleo is bound to break out of YouTube and find mainstream success — even as her personal demons close in. 

For Sadie, Cleo’s ambitious young producer, traveling with Cleo is the opportunity of a lifetime. After one season in South America, she can take a job with the company and settle in New York City where an old flame still burns. All she needs to do is keep Cleo’s wandering spirit on track for their new corporate overlords — a task she utterly fails to perform when Cleo stands her up in Colombia. 

While Cleo searches for an old friend on American soil, Sadie zig-zags the western hemisphere for clues to Cleo’s whereabouts, uncovering the secrets that drove her to leave home in the first place. If Cleo is found and those secrets are exposed, she’ll have to mend the things she left broken. But doing so could put an end to both women’s careers — and to the friendship they’ve built on the tracks.

Women’s Fiction; 83,000 words