The Bargain

Ellis Wren

Retelling en 22974 words First published 2026 United States TalesReborn

Wayne Granger has built Haysville's biggest grain business out of nothing but a twenty-one-year oath: at the county fair in 2001, drunk and at the end of a bad year, he sold his wife Ellen to a passing trucker for fifty dollars, and he has spent the years since outrunning the shame of it. On the eve of his wedding to Lana Cutter, the sharp woman from Reno, the buried past walks back into town. Ellen returns; the town's oldest resident remembers the fair out loud; and Wayne's rival Reece Calder knows more about grain — and about Wayne — than either of them admits. When his own unsent letters finally tell the truth he never could, the harvest king of Wendell County loses the name, the office and the daughter he raised. The Bargain is a story about the price of pride, and the season that waits at the top of the hill for every man who thinks he can outgrow his worst day.

本作品改编自托马斯·哈代的小说《The Mayor of Casterbridge》，由 TalesReborn 出品。

The Bargain

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