Sometimes love finds you when you're not looking.
Sometimes it hauls its way across the country to meet you.
Marnee Sanderson stopped believing in happy endings a long time ago. Hardened by loss and carried forward by grit, she builds her life around survival, not hope.
Love? That was for other people.
Daniel "DJ" Lockwood lives life on the road. Long hauls, longer nights, and a cab that has seen more solitude than most people could bear. He's steady, guarded, and quietly broken in ways he rarely names.
When Marnee is assigned to shadow Daniel on a fifteen-day cross-country freight run, neither expects more than awkward conversation and professional distance. What unfolds instead is a journey through grief, resilience, and unexpected connection, set against dust-streaked highways, truck stops, sunrises and sunsets, and the kind of silence that tells the truth.
Around them, lives shift and hearts open. A family is pieced together from broken edges. Friendships deepen, boundaries soften, and love-messy, imperfect, late-in-life love-dares to bloom.
Haulin' Hope is a tender, humorous, emotionally rich story about second chances, found family, and the courage it takes to let someone see you after the world has taken everything else.
Because sometimes, the heaviest loads aren't freight at all-
they're the ones we carry in our hearts.