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Ellie Cooke has never been a country girl. At least, that's what she tells her friends in New York. It's been two years since she's set foot in the sleepy southern town she used to call home, but that's all about to change. Citing business abroad and condo renovations, Ellie's mom sends her and her older brother Daxton to their grandparents' for the summer.
Ellie already knows she's going to be bored out of her mind, covered in dirt, and nursing a bottle of moonshine all summer. What she didn't count on was the appearance of Dallas Montogomery, the resident quarterback turned farmhand and the previous lust of Ellie's life. When Ellie left for New York, they were on worse than bad terms. Now, she doesn't know where they stand. It fluctuates from moment to moment.
Ellie is prepared for the worst summer of her life, but with a few old friends and a little push from her Nana, Ellie is reminded of why she loved the sprawling wheat fields in the first place. And maybe, she might start to understand why she buried that girl insider her all those years ago.
You can take the girl out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the girl.
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