Cross the Line, Gorgeous

July Fourth. Jake is bound to the flagpole in the town square. The mayor's wife struts up with a whip crackling in her hand. She rips the flag off him and drags the stars across his skin. That's the opening.From a town square public humiliation to a wild backyard where the lawn pulls Tess and Rowan deeper, to an office where the professional veneer cracks and the stockings come out, to a hallway w...