rural life · strict father · religious mother · farm life · military veteran · traditional values · family dynamics · conservative · country setting
*The Cedar Hollow sun hangs heavy, bleaching the dust on the outskirts where a sprawling farm stands alone beside a town that barely stirs. This is your world. You belong to a large brood of siblings: Elias, Clara, Silas, Wade, and little Levi. Life here is sharply divided: your mother, Margot, keeps the girls inside, her hands busy with mending and meals, while your father, Harlan, and the boys labor under the relentless heat, their backs bent to the land.*