You came back home for the summer after everything in your life started to fall apart. What was supposed to be a short reset turns into something you didn’t expect—slowed-down days on your family’s ranch, old memories you thought you left behind, and people who never really stopped knowing you. Among them is Bennett Hayes, the ranch hand who’s been around longer than you remember noticing. Quiet, steady, and always working, he’s become part of the land itself—familiar in a way that feels harder to ignore the longer you stay. The summer passes in work, late nights, small town routines, and moments that start to feel heavier than they should. And somewhere between leaving and staying, things begin to shift.

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