Synthetic Sarah

Lucy: I’d come to Spur Creek to start fresh, and I’d been telling everyone “I’m easy” since the day I arrived. Then my ex showed up at the welcome-week bonfire, still calling me Luce, still sure we were only on a pause. So I asked the quiet cowboy...

Tessa: I kept a laminated pool scorecard at the Spur Creek dance hall, and I was winning, seventeen to fifteen. Then Rhett showed up late because he’d stopped for cherry pie, and he took the stool I’d been guarding under my coat. Everyone wanted the...

Sadie: I’d had a crush on Wyatt Hale since I was eighteen, which is a long time to hide anything from your brother’s best friend. When the Bunkhouse wall needed repairs, I offered him the spare room across my attic landing anyway. I made rules: closed...