A Simple Farming Life #2
(2026)(The second book in the Simple Farming Life series)
A novel by Christine L Donnelly
The first year, Michael Cole learned he could survive in a new world. The second, he finds out if he can build one.
Copperbridge feels like home now. The west field produces. The tea still goes cold because the seedlings came up overnight. But a working farm needs more than one man and a hoe, and Michael's homestead is still half-empty: a barn that came down years ago, outbuildings never rebuilt, fields left untouched.
So he builds. A carpenter and a crowd of neighbors raise a new barn. Six rock-hen chicks arrive in a rattling crate and immediately have opinions about everything. A durroch named Lady Clover moves into the shelter and makes it clear whose farm this actually is. The [ANIMALS] category on his status screen unlocks for the first time, and the east field goes under the hoe. One cleared bed, one settled animal, one skill at a time, the homestead finally starts to look like the real thing.
And the life he's building has people in it. Evenings at the Short Pour with a friend who has become family. A foxkin fiber artist who keeps finding reasons to bring lunch out to the build site, and reasons to stay once it's eaten.
Somewhere between the barn raising and the first frost, Michael stops thinking of it as starting over. Home was never the farmhouse or the fields. It's the people. And he's finally letting them in.
A cozy progression LitRPG about farming, animals, and putting down roots. No combat. Low romance. Just work, community, and earned growth, one season at a time.
Genre: GameLit
Copperbridge feels like home now. The west field produces. The tea still goes cold because the seedlings came up overnight. But a working farm needs more than one man and a hoe, and Michael's homestead is still half-empty: a barn that came down years ago, outbuildings never rebuilt, fields left untouched.
So he builds. A carpenter and a crowd of neighbors raise a new barn. Six rock-hen chicks arrive in a rattling crate and immediately have opinions about everything. A durroch named Lady Clover moves into the shelter and makes it clear whose farm this actually is. The [ANIMALS] category on his status screen unlocks for the first time, and the east field goes under the hoe. One cleared bed, one settled animal, one skill at a time, the homestead finally starts to look like the real thing.
And the life he's building has people in it. Evenings at the Short Pour with a friend who has become family. A foxkin fiber artist who keeps finding reasons to bring lunch out to the build site, and reasons to stay once it's eaten.
Somewhere between the barn raising and the first frost, Michael stops thinking of it as starting over. Home was never the farmhouse or the fields. It's the people. And he's finally letting them in.
A cozy progression LitRPG about farming, animals, and putting down roots. No combat. Low romance. Just work, community, and earned growth, one season at a time.
Genre: GameLit
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