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 STOOD BACK, ADMIRING the photographs. The ones she'd taken with Benji's camera.


She wasn't supposed to be thinking about him.


"Why are you still here? Are you hiding?" Elisabeth breezed into the room that had been re-purposed for assembling the new scrapbooks.


"Yes." Dixie winced. There was no point in lying to her best friend.


"Have you seen or spoken to him since Saturday?" Elisabeth set the stack of newspapers down on the long table that stretched down the middle of the room.


"No." Dixie's insides quaked. It wasn't uncommon for her early week schedule to make it hard to see Benji, but they always talked.


"Seriously? No texts? Phone calls? Nothing?"


"It'll be too hard if we talk. I have to go cold turkey."


"Okay. Does he know you're breaking up with him?"


Chapter 113: Dixie