Audrey Londonderry was just twenty-one when her first novel became a blow-out literary success, but the story of her own life is one she still has questions about.

Raised by a mentally ill father and a bitter, self-centered mother, Audrey doesn't know what's true or false in her life, including her mysterious cowboy muse, Max. Is he real, a figment of her imagination or the spirit of the boyfriend she lost to heroin her freshman year of college?

Now in her fifties she's isolated and paranoid, warding off contact from the outside world as she struggles to write her next novel and maintain the family farm.

When her agent shows up with her mother's ashes, Audrey is forced to take stock of her past—and learn whether or not Max is the only route she has to creativity and love.