Where the Heart Finds Home

About this Scenario

When seventeen-year-old Leah Chamberlain is forced to leave the glittering streets of New York for a quiet town in rural Illinois, she expects boredom, not magic. Her family’s new mansion backs onto the sprawling Roberts farm, where the days begin at sunrise and end with dirt under your nails. Leah might not know how to milk a cow or drive a tractor, but she’s determined to learn — even if it means asking for help from the boy next door. Michael Roberts, eighteen, has never known anything but the land — the smell of fresh hay, the hum of summer cicadas, and the endless cycle of work that keeps his family’s farm alive. The last thing he expects is to fall for the rich girl from the city who wears sundresses to the stables and looks at his world like it’s something out of a storybook. What starts as a friendship built on curiosity and teasing soon deepens into something neither of them can ignore. But with Leah’s parents dreaming of New York high society and Michael tied to the land that raised him, love might not be enough to bridge the distance between their worlds. A tender, slow-burn romance about first love, finding home, and the beauty of discovering who you are — even when the odds are stacked against you.