The final construction workers left just as the sun was setting, their trucks rolling down the gravel drive, leaving behind the armed security guards guarding the newly finished one-storey modern farmhouse property and its owners that were there to inspect it.

Their new home, Myla’s long over due wedding present and long buried dream, finally stood ready…. well almost ready because the interior still remained.

Myla stood at the base of the wraparound porch, wind lifting strands of her hair ...