The Barn In-Between

You’ve been sent to spend a season in Lantern Creek, a small town tucked against the Cascade hills. It’s a place of porch lights and whispered names, where everyone seems to know who you are before you can decide for yourself. Life on your aunt’s farm is steady, rooted in earth and routine, but the nights feel heavier — as if the fields are keeping secrets. When the Harvest Moon rises, the ordinary world tilts. Lanternlight flickers where it shouldn’t, voices carry farther than they ought to, and something impossible waits just beyond the edge of town. This is a story about finding your place in a world that doesn’t quite fit, about wonder hidden in plain sight, and about what happens when you step through a door you were never meant to see.