Terra - Synopsis
Terra
I'm a sculptor who has always felt an unnaturally powerful connection to the earth and the soil. I've created a space for my work that is securely nestled in an underground home and studio. When my hands are slick with clay and the aroma of earth coats my bare feet, I am safe. The rest of the world is a foreign landscape where humans float in tall buildings or walk the surface of the earth, casting their shadows on it without ever truly being a part.
When I designed my home, the handsome and eligible architect, Jett Slaton, connected my name to my father's. Yes, I am Terra Caldwell, daughter of the famous architect, Orestes Caldwell, but no one else knows this unfortunate tale. Orestes walked out on Momma and I before my memory could seal him in. Momma died when I was seven and I was sent to senile aunt Birdie in the city. If it weren't for a Japanese botanist named Kita, I never would have survived.
I was grateful to the handsome architect who kept my secret, and we have been dating ever since. He is glass and steel when I am earth and water. He is skyscraper and airplane when I am barefoot in the mud. And now he's contacted my lost father when I wanted nothing of him. And there is a rumor. A dreadfully dark rumor, that Orestes didn't flee Momma and I alone. He took my infant brother. A tiny child I never knew existed.
This man. This brother. He is sleeping far away in a hospital after he tried to kill himself. Tried to remove his memory from the earth. I want to deny and flee, but Kita knows every fiber of my life. She knows a part of me has been searching for this brother called Torrin-- feeling his presence through the earth, every day of my life.
Torrin's best friend Sawyer is cold and suspicious, but he finally agrees I should visit the hospital. The journey will take me across the country, across my heart and into everything I have been hiding from.
It has been years since I felt the powerfully familiar tie of blood to blood. It brings emotions, pictures, and words that stab. Finally. Finally. I am not alone.
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