A story of reconnection, lost love, and the energy of trust, Heart Land follows a struggling fashion designer back again to her small Iowa hometown as she tries to check out her dreams of success and finding real love.

Grace Klaren offers finally made her imagine living in ny and employed in the fashion industry a reality. But when she’s unexpectedly fired and can’t spend the money for next month’s rent, Grace does something she under no circumstances thought she’d perform: she techniques back home.

Back in Magic Creek, Iowa, about Heart Land: A Novel Sophistication is set to hate it. She rails against the peaceful of her little city, where everything closes early, where there’s no nightlife, where everyone knows one another. She’s saving her pennies and plotting her go back to New York when she nearly runs over a man who’s not paying attention at a crosswalk. It turns out to become Tucker, her senior high school sweetheart whose heart she broke when she left a decade ago. They reconnect, and Elegance remembers why she dropped for him to begin with.

And her job begins to turn around when she discovers a striking but tattered vintage gown at a flea marketplace. She buys it, rips it apart seam by seam, and re-creates it with new fabric, updating the appearance with a few of her personal design ideas. She snaps a picture and lists the dress on the web, and within per day, it markets for nearly $200. Suddenly, Sophistication has her solution out of here.

But Grace can’t combat her growing feelings for Tucker. Occasionally when they’re together, Tucker paints a picture of what their future could possibly be like, and it feels therefore real. So when she finally benefits the funding to go her new business back to New York, Grace must determine where home really is definitely—will she chase her long-held NY dream, or find a fresh dream here in the heartland?