Welcome to Ransom, Texas, where the family ties bind and love runs hot. One of the juciest pieces of gossip around town is what’s happening at The Love Barn, Ransom’s new boutique wedding venue run by the Lively siblings. Word around the tea shop is that Scarlett Lively is getting awfully close to a jilted groom. Then there’s whatever is going on with Benji! We have it on good authority he’s not just teaching his high school crush to play the guitar. And then there’s Garth, who has been noticeably missing from happy hour at The Watering Hole. Will these three break the family curse? Or are they destined to repeat it?

The Love Barn is created by Sidney Bristol, an eGlobal Creative Publishing author.

The Love Barn

DIXIE KNOCKED ON ELISABETH'S apartment at exactly eight thirty Monday morning.


It was technically summer and though Elisabeth wasn't working for the school she had picked up hours at the library working with the restoration team trying to fill in the holes of the stolen albums.


Footsteps thumped softly. Locks scraped free.


"Dee?" Elisabeth stepped back, squinting at Dixie with one eye. "What's up? Why aren't you at work?"


"I'm not going in today." Dixie pushed past her friend into the apartment and peered toward Harrison's door. "Is your brother here?"


"Still asleep. I haven't woken him up yet."


"Can we talk?" Dixie turned toward her friend. "I mean, do you have time to talk?"


"What's up? Did something happen? Is Jace-"


"It's not Jace." Dixie paced past her friend into the tiny galley kitchen where the coffee machine waited.


Elisabeth followed, still in her pajama pants and fuzzy robe.


Chapter 109: Dixie