Casey Ryan has twenty-five thousand dollars in his pocket and the open road stretching ahead toward Los Angeles. A retired stagecoach driver with time to kill and pleasures to find, he's exactly the kind of man who should keep driving. Instead, he stops for a stranded car stuck in Nevada mud, belonging to a dreamy show troupe and their enchanting leading lady. What follows is pure B.M. Bower: road comedy, small-town hijinks, and the quiet devastation of a generous man who can't stop giving even when giving wreckages his plans. The story hurtles through misadventures with the troupe - comic messes, unexpected bonds, the seductions of the stage - while Casey watches his tidy future dissolve into chaos. But here's the rub: he doesn't seem to mind. There's something in the giving that matters more than the losing, and B.M. Bower knows exactly how to land that revelation without a trace of sentimentality. A warm, wry Western tale about the man who stops for strangers and finds himself instead.
