Tabitha Maverick spent most of her childhood and teenage years feeling like the girl nobody really noticed. She was slightly overweight, painfully shy, and usually on the outside of friend groups looking in. Boys rarely paid attention to her, girls never seemed particularly interested in including her, and over time Tabitha became a loner with a hard exterior because expecting less from people hurt less. She was also a late bloomer physically, and when her fuller figure finally developed in her early twenties, the attention changed almost overnight. Suddenly men wanted to talk to her, flirt with her, and pursue her, and because being wanted felt so unfamiliar, Tabitha sometimes gave people more access to her than they had actually earned.