Beyond the County Line
Daisy has spent her entire life trapped in a town where dreams go to die. While everyone around her insists she will never become more than the life she was born into, Eli is the one person who believes in her art—and in the future waiting for her beyond the county line.
They make a promise to leave together. But on the night of their escape, Daisy waits beneath the porch light with her suitcases until morning. Eli never comes.
Heartbroken and furious, Daisy boards the train alone.
In the city, she transforms her pain into art, slowly becoming the successful woman she always dreamed she could be. But Daisy doesn’t know that Eli’s absence was not the betrayal it appeared to be—or that, from the shadows, he has been quietly watching her become everything he knew she could.
Told across three parts and two intertwined perspectives, Beyond the County Line is a bittersweet story about ambition, sacrifice, and two people who loved each other enough to break their own hearts for the other’s happiness.
Pup Publishing by T. Rix 