900 Miles

Sudden luck strikes the one person who won't share the news.It s a mega win on a weekly lotto ticket; a ton of cash.But even though Christina s howls of triumph scare the cat, she can t tell her stepdad Harrison. Not even when a frustrated, off-the-cuff retort to a co-worker sets her free from a newspaper job she no longer needs anyway.She fills notebook pages with bucket lists, but can t bring herself to just pick any. Wanting but not letting herself have, that s Christina all over. Motherless, practically raising Harrison instead of the other way around. For Christina, winning is what you hide so fate can t make it sour.But fate has other plans.She lucks into a newer, quirkier job (to hide from Harrison), and the new office opens a whole new world right on her doorstep.Bit by bit, Christina s horizon widens. A black and white photograph helps her to discover friends of the finest kinds. A tribe with eyes like hers.While she struggles with Harrison s addiction, and fights against all that she now has, fate wheels Christina on a 900-miles road trip to confront the young woman she could be, but can t yet face in the mirror.