In this coming of age novel, we meet Dessa Rhodes, a teen whose family live a nomadic life-style traveling in a caravan of RVs with a communal group of friends. One of the friends is a teenaged boy, Cyprus, who Dessa has had a crush on for a long time. She’s worried about what a romance could do to their families’ relationship if the romance did not work out.

Dessa is an inspiring and talented artist who wants to leave the road behind and instead attend art school. But she can’t get accepted anywhere. And if she ever did, how would she pay for it?

An unexpected opportunity presents itself and she has to decide if she is going to leave the road, her family, and Cyrus, to pursue her dreams of becoming an artist, or stay with the ones she loves.