It’s 1984; two young lives are just beginning as high school disappears into the rearview for very different reasons, but both are already wrapped in turmoil.
Lori Ann Morgan is a sheltered, 19-year-old “Navy brat” in Jacksonville, Florida whose inner beauty is even greater than her stunning appearance. She has her first job, first car, first boyfriend and a longing for life anywhere but on a military base. A random discovery on a Miami beach sends her to Los Angeles after inadvertently walking into the high-stakes world of international drug dealers. Now she’s running from unknown people who need to tie up the loose ends of a transaction gone bad.
Reno MacNab just turned 18 and has enough cash from a court settlement to dive even deeper into the dangerous and unchecked lifestyle his mother tries to prevent him from reentering. Relocating from the court-ordered reform school in New Jersey to the peaceful shores of Lake Minnetonka was supposed to offer a fresh start free from the fast times and troubled path he’s traveled, but the dazzling allure of the 80’s drug culture has an unbreakable and lethal impact on his hedonistic life.
Lori Ann is finding that freedom can be a double-edged sword; Reno plunges into a world that has heavy prices; two separate lives evolving thousands of miles apart, connected only by an unforeseeable fate that will make the inconceivable a reality.
Reno and Lori Ann’s lives unfold at break-neck speeds crisscrossing the United States and into Mexico in this raw, explosive and feverishly passionate story of sex, drugs, love and loss. While frantically searching for a way out, a new, deeply captivating mystery is uncovered, which puts them on a collision course with destiny. We may all have a plan, but as this gritty and dramatically thrilling novel teaches us, Destinations Change.