"The Agrarian Idealist"

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Rachel Vos didn’t grow up dreaming of marriage. She just wanted peace, a patch of earth to call her own, and maybe a man who didn’t mind that she had thoughts. Big ones. Loud ones. Unfortunately, in a small rural town with polite church women and emotionally constipated men, that made her a bit of a problem. Clyde Turner, on the other hand, was no problem at all. Quiet. Steady. Hands calloused from farm work. A man of few words and even fewer expectations. He didn’t ask questions. He didn’t make demands. He just assumed—about her dreams, her body, her silence. That she’d fold neatly into his life the way laundry folds across a creaky line in the wind. Rachel tried to become the woman everyone said she should be. She cooked. She kept the house. She sat through family dinners where the tension was thicker than the gravy. She smiled through snide comments, endured Bible study potlucks, and tucked her dreams into a drawer next to the good silver. But the quieter she became, the louder her mind got. Through awkward marital missteps, silent dinners, and moments so absurd they demanded laughter or madness—Rachel begins to realize that survival is its own kind of rebellion. That love without understanding is just a prettier kind of loneliness. And that the life she’s living isn’t the one she chose—it’s the one she was handed by a man who never asked who she really was. The Agrarian Idealist is a raw, darkly funny exploration of what happens when a woman raised to be polite learns to hear her own voice. The first book in the Four Husbands and a Bottle of Trouble series, it’s not a love story—it’s a leaving story.