TY - SER KW - college students KW - widows and widowers KW - hitchhiking KW - serial killers AU - Kelly Braffet AB - Miranda, a college dropout and aimless drifter in Pittsburgh, is taken south by an odd stranger. C1 - 2000s C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Oakland; University of Pittsburgh; South Side; W. Mifflin; Allegheny County Airport; Blair County; Altoona; Fayette County C4 - Literary; Suspense; Psychological CY - Boston LA - English M3 - Novel N2 - Miranda, a college dropout and aimless drifter in Pittsburgh, is taken south by an odd stranger. PB - Houghton Mifflin PP - Boston PY - 2006 RN - Kelly Braffet (1976- ), born in Long Beach, California and raised in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, was educated at Greensburg Salem High School, Sarah Lawrence College, and Columbia University. She is the author of three novels and lives with her writer-husband Owen King (son of horror novelist Stephen King) in Upstate New York. EP - 272 p. TI - Last Seen Leaving ER -