Across the Fence

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Mark Pearson has lived next door to Diane for years, content with polite waves and quiet mornings spent reading the paper on his porch. Her sprinkler clicking on at precisely seven o’clock was just part of the rhythm of his life—subtle, familiar, comforting.

But one morning the sprinkler doesn’t come on.

And Mark crosses the fence.

What starts as a neighborly check-in becomes soup shared at her kitchen table, long talks, and three days of unexpected closeness. Diane, gentle and warm but carrying more loneliness than she ever let on, finds herself drawn to Mark’s steady presence. And Mark—divorced, guarded, convinced his romantic life is behind him—feels something stir he thought he’d lost for good.

As the hours stretch into evenings and the distance between them shrinks with each hesitant smile, both realize they’ve been living side by side without ever truly seeing each other. A small road trip, a reckless kiss, and a slow, quiet unraveling of old fears force them to face the truth:

They’re not just neighbors anymore.

They’re something more. Something worth risking the comfort of distance for.

But when Mark’s past resurfaces—and Diane’s doubts begin to whisper—both must decide whether this fragile new happiness is strong enough to survive real life beyond the fence.

Warm, tender, and achingly human, Across the Fence is a small-town romance about second chances, unexpected beginnings, and the courage it takes to let love into a life that’s grown too quiet for too long.

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