After years of preparing for this moment, Sloane Avery is just one meeting away from the merger that will define her career. But when a record-breaking winter storm grounds every flight in Chicago, her only hope of reaching San Francisco by Monday is the 52-hour train ride aboard the Train of America Courier.

After being double-booked and now trapped in a cramped sleeper car with Oliver Wade, a nomadic photojournalist who doesn't believe in plans, doesn't believe in boundaries, and definitely doesn't believe in the corporate persona Sloane uses as armor, she's forced to relearn her old ways.

In the silence of the storm, the logistics don't matter. But when the tracks finally clear, can Sloane return to her life of spreadsheets, or has Oliver captured a version of her she isn't ready to let go?