Product Description: Eighteen-year-old Tim MacCulfsky's parents are killed in a car accident. When he discovers that he was adopted at the age of almost four, he decides to search for his birth parents. But the plot thickens as he learns that his was a black market adoption, and the lawyer who handled the case fifteen years ago was recently murdered. Tracking a people trail, instead of a paper trail, the only person who knows anything about his past leads Tim on a wild-goose chase halfway across the country to avoid the murderer. The mystery takes a twist from the start, when Tim picks up a hitchhiker named Rhonda--an uncooperative, obnoxious, fun-loving fifteen-year-old runaway he can't get rid of.