Prairies of Heart
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Living in a ghost town set back in the 1800s is not easy for Summer Daniels. She works nights as a tweenie, cleaning for the local whorehouse, and spends her days in shelter at the barn. Summer never knew what life was like outside the town of Dimley nor did she want to but that all changes when a raging storm floods the entire town out and she wakes up on the porch steps of a coal miners home
Henry Thomas works all day as a collier in Virginia. His ex wife spewed lies about him and one day he finds himself in unexpected trouble with the Sheriff. Conflicted between hiding out or leaving the only place he has ever known, he makes a decision to leave and stay in his cabin outside Dimley. Things take a drastic turn as a storm rages on and his horse runs off leaving him stuck but he ends up finding a woman. Could this woman be his fate?
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