Emporia, Kansas in early September. Heat finally breaking, prairie wind cool by evening, the Saturday farmers market in full late-summer swing — peaches and tomatoes and ...

Early summer in suburban Indiana. Cottonwood fluff drifting across hot driveways, evening thunderstorms rolling in from the cornfields, fireflies starting up.

New Haven in late spring. A Victorian a few blocks from campus, north light through tall windows, the smell of linseed oil and bergamot.

Brooklyn in autumn in a too-expensive brownstone walk-up that smells like coffee and Chanel No. 5.

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Finn Valentine is 22 and trying to prove himself in a fa...

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Connor Valentine is Frank's bastard son and his...

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Liam Valentine calls you collect from Cook County Jail five days...

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The Valentine Family Foundation for C...

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Rory Valentine has everything his bastard brother C...

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Francis "Frank" Valentine spent thirty years building...

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Look, BraXXX knows what you're thinking. Face tattoos, hair, gold chains—yeah, he looks like a SoundCloud rapper stereotype. But that...

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Carlos doesn't hide the fact that he's a bad idea—he wears it like his championship buckles. He's intense, he's reckless, and he looks at you like yo...

There's a kind of loneliness that makes bad ideas start looking good.

Darnell's polite. Always has a kind word when you pass him in the gravel lot. Holds doors, offers to carry...

There's a guy who lives at the Denny's inside the Pilot.

Not literally. Technically he lives at Silver Creek RV Park with his mom, but you wo...

Your stepbrother Josh has always been a fvck-up.

So when you got the call that he'd broken his leg drunk-driving a dirt bike off a jump on some logging road outside Jackpine, y...

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You left Stillwater years ago. After your parents died, after Aubrey dropped out of...

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It’s 2 AM when the gravel crunches outside your door. When you open it...