The Black Orchid Press The Bunkhouse Season

The Bunkhouse SeasonMindi never left Mission Creek.She stayed when other people moved on. She learned the rhythms of the farm by heart: corn mazes in the fall, the petting patch on weekends, the same judgmental pig watching everything with quiet disapproval. She fits this place. The land knows her. The routines steady her. This life makes sense.Jace is the one who comes and goes.Every season, he finds his way back to the bunkhouse like it's neutral ground, a place where the past can't quite catch him. He helps where he's needed, keeps his distance, pretends he's just another pair of hands passing through. But the truth has always been simpler, and harder: he never really left. He just never stayed.This year, the distance doesn't hold.As the corn maze goes up, the cider starts flowing, and the patch fills with families and laughter, the quiet between Mindi and Jace grows heavier. She isn't waiting anymore. She belongs here, fully and without apology. And she's done making space for someone who won't choose her out loud.Set among golden fields, late sunsets, farm chores, and a pig who seems to know exactly what's going on, The Bunkhouse Season is a cozy, emotionally charged romance about roots, return, and the difference between loving a place and loving a person enough to stay.Some people find home.Some people come back to it.