


During her training in Lubbock, she meets Trillian-“Thrill”-and manages to screw things up from the start. Unexpectedly wealthy after her father’s death and emotionally adrift with no idea what she really wants from life, Max decides to take to the road and signs up to become a truck driver. After years of hope and heartbreak, and too many lies to count, Max seems poised to settle for the various "friends with benefits" she encounters. But Daphne’s been there for her ever since Max and her father weathered a terrible tragedy, one that’s still whispered about in their small Texas town. Unfortunately, Daphne Polk is someone else’s wife, and her daughter Lena is someone else’s child. Maxine Terrell lurches into adulthood madly in love with a woman and her child.
