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Matthew Bernard takes a job at Reverend Owens’ barn for the season, the type of work that wears a cowboy down to the bone. He’s the only hand hired, long days, quiet nights, nothing but dust, sweat, and the horses to keep him company.
But Christopher Owens, the pastor's son, and a quiet church boy, has a way of slipping past the fences Matt keeps around himself. Soft where Matt is heavy, gentle in a world that demands authority, he unsettles something Matthew thought he’d buried deep.
Want is a dangerous word in the South, especially when it stares back at you with kindness you don't think you deserve.
Some things can’t be spoken. Some things can’t be prayed away. And some things take root, no matter how hard you try to cut them down.