SOUR
Shae Smith

At The Lumen Lemon Farms, the lemons are bright, the pies are warm, and the soil is soaked with secrets. Her parents, Meril and Louise Lumen, have a kill, bury the body in the backyard, and plant a new lemon tree on the grave.
Sable never asked for this life, but she’s been trained to survive it—scrubbing blood from tile floors, dragging bodies to shallow plots, learning how to keep quiet.
Then Jones Law arrives.
Gentle, inquisitive, and full of life, he makes Sable feel everything she was taught to suppress. But love, in her family, is a death sentence. Her parents give her one
Kill him, or he joins the grove.
Sable thinks she knows how this ends, until a twist no one saw coming changes everything.
A haunting, slow-burn thriller about love, legacy, and the rot that hides beneath the roots.