Nick Carter, traveling musician-slash-train stowaway is joined by a girl thrown out of her home during the Great Depression.  But in order to keep their cover, Carla must become Nick's traveling companion "Carl," a mute boy who plays the piano.  As they wander the country, Carla learns to trust Nick and tells him the truth about her past, but she soon realizes that he has secrets of his own.

Author's note: This story and time period have lived and grown in my head for so long that I forget what are facts and what are flights of fancy. So please take historical discrepancies with a grain of salt, and pretend that I intentionally took an artistic license!

She was beautiful to the eye. Long blonde hair, perfect body, greenest eyes anyone had ever seen and a smile that could eat your soul. Heads turned whenever she walked into a room and she knew it.

He had women falling at his feet everywhere he went, he played on that. They knew it, and he knew it but that didn't stop them following him. He played it with no strings, getting what he wanted and saying goodbye. It was easier that way, knowing he would never be in the same city for too long. It was hard to keep a relationship and he liked it that way. His life ran in a way that made it perfect for him.

Until he met her. Until she twisted her way into his life, and changed it.