Shift

Imagine you and your best friend head off on a cross-country bike trek.Imagine that you get into a fight -- the cheap s.o.b. won't kick in any cash.Imagine you stop riding together.Imagine you reach Seattle then come home alone, still p.o-ed.Imagine the FBI is now at your college dorm.Imagine finding out that your former best friend never made it home.And imagine that he had actually been carrying over $20,000 in cash with him.Imagine your world shifting....A tour-de-force about biking, friendship, and the depths of loyalty by a debut novelist who has in fact biked cross country.

Jennifer Bradbury is an English teacher living in Burlington, Washington, was a one-day champion on Jeopardy!, and her honeymoon was a two-month bicycling trek from Charleston, South Carolina, to Los Angeles. She is also the author of Wrapped.