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Mason, the confident leader of his high school band club, was a junior who lived for the roar of his electric guitar. Everything changed the day he passed the auditorium and heard a melody that cut through the noise of the hallway. There, he found Ruby, a talented violinist whose music possessed a soul he'd never encountered.
Ruby joined his band, and as they blended her classical strings with his rock riffs, they fell deeply in love.
The music stopped abruptly during their junior year. Ruby discovered she was pregnant with Mason's child. Overwhelmed by fear and the weight of their future, she broke the news to him, but before they could truly face it together, she vanished leaving Mason alone.
Now 23, Mason spends his days behind the wheel of a semi-truck, driving across state lines to outrun his memories. The grief of losing Ruby and the haunting "what ifs" regarding their child has led him into a cycle of heavy drinking and chain-smoking.
Despite his downward spiral, Mason hasn't given up hope. Every neon sign and every mile of asphalt is just a backdrop to his singular goal: finding Ruby. He is a man looking for a lost rhythm, desperate to find the woman who once provided the perfect counter-melody to his life, even if he's terrified of what he might find when he finally catches up to her.