"November 1991. George H. W. Bush is in the White House, Nirvana's in the tape deck, and movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is in a car with a man who might be a serial killer. Josh Baxter, the man behind the wheel, is a virtual stranger to Charlie. They met at the campus ride board. Both have good reasons for wanting to get away. For Charlie, it's guilt and grief over the shocking murder of her best friend, who became the third victim of the Campus Killer. For Josh, it's to help care for his sick father. Or so he says. What follows, on an empty highway in the dead of night, is a game of cat and mouse played out during an age when the only call for help can be made on a pay phone and in a place where there's nowhere to run"--Page 4 of cover.