Learning to Fly by April Henry

A fiery chain-reaction accident leaves Free Meeker with someone else's bag and the hitchhiker she picked up dead. Nineteen-year-old Free discovers the bag contains nearly a million dollars-and that the hitchhiker's body has been identified as hers. Fate seems to be handing her the chance to start over-or is it? Originally from St. Martins, named to Library Journal best books of 2002.