Riley Robinson always tries to clear her inbox before dawn. Between her paralegal job and training for the Bear Lake Classic—a fifty-mile road race around Idaho’s turquoise shores—she’s got two weeks to shave minutes off her personal record and take down her picture-perfect rival.

Then an unleashed golden retriever named Boone sends her bike skidding into the gravel, right at the feet of Oswald Bouchard.

Yes, that Oz Bouchard. The productivity wizard whose bestselling books and life hacks taught Riley how to squeeze every drop of efficiency out of her day.

But the guy standing in front of her isn’t wearing the designer suit from his author photo. He’s sporting a scruffy beard, a floppy bucket hat, and walking across America to deliberately slow his life down to three miles an hour. After surviving a brutal plane crash, Oz walked away from his algorithms and his ticking clocks. 

Riley thinks he’s crazy for ditching success; Oz thinks she’s speeding right past the good stuff. But as shared stone-skipping lessons, late-night phone calls, and a chaotic paddle board ride start melting her hyper-scheduled armor, Riley realizes slowing down might not be such a bad idea.