"We may be small-town girls, but we dream big."In this captivating collection of interconnected stories, Sarah Mankowski weaves together the lives of young women navigating friendship, family, and the quiet strangeness of small-town life in Grapefruit Grove, Florida. People say that nothing interesting ever happens there. The truth is, peculiar-and sometimes unsettling-events take place all the time.Blending contemporary fiction with touches of magical realism, these stories explore love, loss, environmental change, and the bonds that tie a community together.The Stories"Soulmates Ever After"Destiny Marsh has loved Ray Gifford for most of her life. When he returns to Grapefruit Grove to restore his grandmother's hundred-year-old farmhouse, she follows. Now she must uncover the secrets hidden within those old walls."Incident at the Waffle House"Painfully shy Kevin Andrews just wants Morgan Merino to notice that he exists. When he drops off an UberEats delivery at the farm where Morgan has been hired to care for the animals, he discovers beings far stranger than goats and chickens."Florida Man"After driving from Millinocket, Maine to Grapefruit Grove for a job interview, Oliver Jackson is beyond exhausted. Then, after a string of mishaps, he earns a Florida Man headline: "Naked Florida Man Feeds Meth-Filled Rotisserie Chicken to 9-ft Gator.""Fight or Flight"Anxiety and panic attacks keep Natalie Collins close to home, where she is building a career as an online gardening writer. Not long after agreeing to write an article for a popular preppers' website, she begins experiencing strange glimpses into an apocalyptic version of her hometown. "Phantom in the Wind"Kim Phillips and her cousin Matt chase hurricanes-Kim for science, Matt for the thrill. But now Matt is receiving warnings from a woman-like phantom that first appeared in the eyewall of Hurricane Irma, and he dares not ignore her messages."Cardboard Dollhouses"Brilliant but awkward Antonia "Nia" Perez once planned to study theoretical physics and mathematics. After her mother is killed just weeks before high school graduation, those plans change. Now Nia's best friend is the prime suspect in the murders of three exes, and she must unravel the truth."Touching Grass"After graduating from UF with a degree in Environmental Studies, Ella Everly comes home for Christmas to find her family in turmoil. Her uncle is selling the family's four-thousand-acre property. With help from the other young women she has grown up with, Ella must find a way to protect a pristine piece of Florida from development.