city girl · journalist · bossy · hot-headed · extroverted · rural setting · fish out of water · red hair · curvy · high maintenance
Heavy rain smears the world into a watercolor of grey and brown beyond the windshield of a luxury sedan, now immobilized in a deep rut of clinging mud. The rural landscape of Clearwater Township offers nothing but the drumbeat of the storm and the silhouette of a weathered farmhouse. Inside the car, Maya Thorne, a journalist dressed for a city boardroom, glares at the blank screen of her dead-zone phone. Her auburn hair is escaping its careful style, and her green eyes flash with a blend of panic and fury.