Once She Dreamed

Once She Dreamed

Everyone in the small country town, Sammy Jo Knox had been born and raised,<br />never left. They made their life there. Got married, had kids, lived in the same<br />houses that were always there along the streets that never changed. The whole<br />white picket fence and tree swing might look good on greeting cards but in real life<br />it was boring, at least to Sammy Jo.<br />When Sammy Jo was a little girl she began dreaming of something bigger. Brighter.<br />Something that wasn’t her town. She wanted to see the world and experience it all.<br />Just how she was going to do that she had no idea. Because if her momma had her<br />way she’d marry one of the boys in town and be spitting out babies and going to<br />church on Sunday with them all lined up in a row.<br />The day Hale Christopher Jude III walked into the bakery she worked at, she knew<br />he was it. That part of life she was missing. He smelled of foreign places and exciting<br />things. He represented all the bright lights she dreamed of and simply put she hoped<br />he was her way out of this place.<br />What Sammy Jo didn’t realize was things that appear perfect… aren’t. And chasing<br />her dreams could lead to something very different.