\u201cSign the deed or I\u2019ll break your arm right here!\u201d my brother screamed while slamming me against the side of a truck outside Sunset Lavender Co. as our parents watched without a flicker of emotion. Years ago they dumped me on worthless land, but now they wanted my multi-million-dollar farm to erase his debts \u2014 completely unaware I had secretly sold everything months earlier.My name is Sienna Fry. I\u2019m thirty years old, and I\u2019m staring at an email that makes me want to scream until my lungs collapse.\u201cStop wasting your life playing in dirt, Sienna. You have 72 hours to leave the property. Mom is coming to collect the deed. Don\u2019t make this harder than necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The message is from my older brother, Garrett. The golden child. The same brother who received an $847,000 luxury apartment in Manhattan from our father after finishing his MBA. Meanwhile, when I graduated top of my class in Environmental Science, my father handed me a dusty deed to twelve acres of barren land in the Hudson Valley. \u201cTake this useless dirt,\u201d Douglas sneered coldly. \u201cAt least you can\u2019t ruin anything important there.\u201dThe house sitting on the property was a collapsing 1978 shack with no.The house sitting on the property was a collapsing 1978 shack with no heating and no hot water. During that first winter, I froze constantly while working fourteen-hour days and doing remote data-entry jobs just to keep up with taxes. But buried in the land, I discovered a strip of native wildflowers. With a $3,200 loan from my best friend Natalie, I slowly transformed the wasteland into a thriving 7.2-acre lavender farm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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