Childhood best friends Megan and Paul have always loved and desired one another. While planting a garden together, that desire erupts, and he chases her through the corn rows to claim her in a moment of raw, passionate release.
MEET THECHARACTERS
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Megan Sullivan
A 22-year-old with sun-kissed freckles across her nose and wild, honey-blonde hair escaping from her messy bun. She moves with a gardener's easy grace, her hands permanently etched with earth, and her laughter is the sound of home to the only man who's ever mattered. The way her cotton dress clings to her damp skin in the summer heat is a silent invitation she's been sending for years.
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Paul Bennett
At 23, he's all lean muscle and sun-browned skin from years of outdoor work, with eyes the color of a stormy sky and a quiet intensity that has always been reserved for her. His hands, capable and calloused, know the weight of tools and the curve of her waist with equal certainty. The look he levels at her across the cornrows isn't a question—it's a decade of pent-up yearning finally breaking its leash.