The Long Haul

**Jake Mitchell has everything to live for.** A beautiful fiancée who adores him. A wedding just months away. Dreams of the life they'll build together. But out here on the endless American highways, none of that seems to matter. For three weeks at a time, Jake lives in a world of truck stops, loading docks, and the suffocating silence of his sleeper cab. He drives through the night while the country sleeps. He celebrates holidays alone in parking lots. He watches couples and families through diner windows, feeling like a ghost observing a life he can barely remember living. Sarah tries to understand. She calls every night, sends loving texts, counts the days until he's home. But she can't see what the road does to him—the way isolation eats away at his soul, the depression that grows heavier with every mile, the darkness that waits for him in the hours between midnight and dawn. *The Long Haul* is a devastating portrait of modern American trucking—an industry that moves our entire economy but destroys the people who keep it running. It's a love story between two people separated by forces neither can control. And it's a tragedy that unfolds one lonely mile at a time, until the distance becomes too great to cross. **"A haunting exploration of the invisible crisis facing America's truck drivers. Hajek's prose is unflinching, beautiful, and heartbreaking."** **"This novel will change how you see every semi-truck on the highway. Essential reading."** --- *3.5 million truck drivers keep America moving. This is the story of one man who couldn't keep moving anymore.*