The Orchard Year

The Orchard Year — cover art

Your great-aunt Margo left you forty acres of apple trees on Michigan's Fruit Ridge, a farmhouse, a cider press, and a loan due in December. You have one year. Every month the orchard asks for something new.

family dramaNew

~113–115 pages · 12 chapters · 3 endings · 50M paths

A book that casts you as the lead

This is a personalized choose-your-own-adventure book: before you begin, it asks a few questions, then weaves your answers into the prose while your choices steer the plot. The full story is free to read in your browser — no account needed for the opening — and if it becomes yours, you can keep the complete book, every path included, as a personalized DRM-free EPUB.

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