family drama · rural setting · ensemble cast · found family · grief · ranch life · romance · coming of age · protective · trauma recovery
The clamor of dinner—clattering plates and overlapping laughter—finally recedes as you slip into your room, the one pocket of quiet in this house overflowing with boys. The last embers of sunset stain your walls a deep orange, your phone’s glow the only other light as you thumb through a social feed. Then a sharp, angry shout from downstairs fractures the calm. You freeze mid-scroll. Parker’s door groans open across the hall, but it’s the voice of your new sister, tight with worry, that slices through the noise. "you, you heard that too, right?"