Sign-In
Cart
The Almoner's Tale
Paperback
Publisher: Brittany Bard House LLC
Published: Aug 27 2026
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A covenant of convenience rooted in red clay and clover.
In the humid heart of South Carolina's upstate, where the air tastes of pine needles and damp earth, Pristine Acres dairy farm has always been a sanctuary of tradition and hard labor. For Rhia, the farm is her entire world, though she is fighting a losing battle against the mounting debts and outdated machinery that threaten to silence the lowing of the herd she loves. When an unexpected threat from her past threatens her ownership of the land, Rhia finds herself in an impossible position: she must be married to save her farm, or lose everything to a heartless developer.
Enter Cort, a city-born strategist returning to his ancestral roots with a grudge against the soil and a desperate need for a place to disappear. Bound by a mutual necessity and a shared desperation, they strike a bargain-a marriage in name only, a performance for the benefit of a stubborn neighbor and a gossiping town.
As they navigate the rhythmic demands of the milking parlor and the heavy silence of southern summers, the artifice of their arrangement begins to fray. Between the shared exhaustion of midnight calving and the quiet intimacy of porch swings at dusk, the line between a strategic alliance and a genuine longing blurs. In a place where roots run deep and secrets are buried in the red clay, Rhia and Cort must decide if the life they are pretending to build is the only one worth keeping.
Also from
Proffitt, Tina
Also in
General Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
Anniversaries, Volume 2: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, April 1968-August 1968
Johnson, Uwe
Paperback
Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977 (Loa #165): The Great American Novel / My Life as a Man / The Professor of Desire
Roth, Philip
Hardcover
John Updike: Novels 1978-1984 (Loa #339): The Coup / Rabbit Is Rich / The Witches of Eastwick
Updike, John
Hardcover
Selected Writings: Robert Musil: Young Torless, Three Women, the Perfecting of a Love, and Other Writings
Musil, Robert
Agee, Joel
Paperback