Strawberry Wine ✓
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  • Parts 18
  • Time 1h 2m
Complete, First published Apr 06, 2022
Mature
~Completed~Dallas Rhodes comes from a well to do family who's recently moved to the family racing farm in Lexington, Kentucky. She's immediately drawn to the stable boy, Jimmy Dobyne, when she sees how he interacts with her precious horses. What comes next is a whirlwind summer romance like those described in the books she reads. When the summer racing and breeding season ends, her family is ready to uproot back to Nashville. She's reluctant to leave him but he pushes her away, that last dinner at her parents' house shows him that he'll never fit into her world.

When she returns 5 years later, after the deaths of her parents, she's shocked to find Jimmy still there, running the stables. But Dallas hasn't come back alone and Jimmy isn't prepared for what is coming for him. As she takes over the family business and they work together every day, 5 years worth of feelings, both good and bad, come bubbling to the surface. Can they work pass the hurts from the past and build themselves, and the family business, a brighter future, or will they fall to ruins, taking her family's legacy with them?
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