Along for the Ride

For high-achieving Auden West, sleep is a stranger. Ever since her parents' academic ambitions and bitter divorce overshadowed her childhood, she has spent her nights wandering, convinced she has missed out on the normal teenage experience. For the last summer before college, she trades her studious life with her mother for the carefree beach town of Colby, where her father lives with his new wife and baby. There, she hopes to find the pieces of herself she lost along the way - from riding a bike to simply connecting with girls her own age.

Her new life truly begins after dark. While the rest of the town sleeps, Auden explores the quiet streets and meets Eli, a mysterious and solitary fellow insomniac. As he becomes her guide to a nocturnal world, they embark on a quest for Auden to reclaim her lost childhood, one adventure at a time. This is a story about the transformative power of a single summer, exploring how second chances can emerge in the most unexpected places and how opening up to new people can help you finally discover who you were meant to be.