Nine months ago, Maggie was mugged and beaten. Since then, she hasn't been able to stop worrying about everything. Mark is at the end of his patience with her elevated fear and decides they should take a road trip (along with their dog Gerome) to his parents to get out of the everyday routine and visit a place where both of them are comfortable. 
 The majority of this book lies within Mark and Maggie and their individual inner dialogues. I really enjoy getting inside of a character's head, so the lack of action or outer dialogue did not bother me much. The setting was also perfect to create an environment with a growing sense of dread, which made it quite suspenseful. The drive is essentially where the story takes place. And with Maggie's aversion to strangers and strange places (a gas station can set her off on a tangent of horrible possibilities) and a multi-state storm system ahead of them, it only ratcheted up the likelihood that something bad was going to happen. 
 And something bad does happen, but it is so far out of left field that I doubt any reader could have predicted it. That's not to say that I enjoyed the outcome. It was probably the worst part of the book. And the story ends abruptly after that. 
 There are a lot of little things that did not add up in the story; mainly inconsistencies in the way the characters acted as opposed to how they are presented. (view spoiler)[ A few examples: Mark, knowing Maggie's fears, leaves her asleep in an unlocked car while he checks about a room availability at a hotel in the middle of nowhere. Maggie reveals that as a child she fantasized about horrible case scenarios and it would comfort her, but now as an adult she has to see a therapist and take medication to keep her fear and anxiety at bay because of these same imagined scenarios, but she almost exclusively immerses herself in horrible news stories to feed her imagination. (hide spoiler)] 
 While Mark and Maggie desperately want to reconnect (at least in their own heads, this is what they've expressed) they never talk to each other about this. (view spoiler)[ And the worst part, besides Gerome's death, is Mark and Maggie's instant revelations that they will make changes for the better and start living life to the fullest - and yet they NEVER express that to one another! And also, to me, this seemed to be the craziest reaction to the death of their beloved pet. (hide spoiler)] 
 The book was definitely a page turner and a quick and easy read, but I'm hesitant to recommend it. There were just too many disjointed pieces to the story.