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

Noemi'S HANDS WORKED WITHOUT conscious thought. She'd peeled potatoes at the kitchen table so many times it was automatic.


She hadn't spoken to Garth in days. He'd respected her insistence that they do this break and hadn't reached out once. She wasn't sure why that surprised her, but it did. Maybe some part of her had hoped he'd push on through, demand to be part of her life.


Maybe she'd finally pushed him too far? But wasn't this what she wanted?


"Why the long face, mija?" Mom sat down with a bowl full of green beans that needed to be trimmed.


"Stressful month. Glad for a break in it all."


Her mother sat there, paring knife in hand, and studied Noemi.


"What?" she asked after a moment had gone by.


"Where's that nice boyfriend of yours?" Mom's tone was too cheerful, too careful. She must have picked up on the fact that not all was right.


"We broke up." Noemi sighed. "I broke up with him."


Chapter 157: Noemi