The Farmer's Secret

On a farm that has stood quiet and respectable for forty years, the grass grows darker over four acres at the far edge of the property. The family has organized its entire life around not noticing.

Then Cassie comes home.

Twenty-seven, back from a life that didn't work out, she has always had a nose for things — the closed drawer, the loose thread she can't leave alone. It's the one quality her grandfather Earl never managed to train out of her. And when a bracelet surfaces in the drought-cracked field, that quality becomes the thread that unravels everything: the county records, the eight names, and the green journal her grandmother hid where only Cassie would find it.

Told in braided voices across four narrators and a dead woman's diary, The Farmer's Secret asks one question from three directions — what does it cost to finally see?