The Watermelon Riot — Melissa Glisan

What can be more boring than covering the local produce festival?

Reporter Scott Reneau's world changes forever when local history mixes with Michelle Butler, the newsroom wallflower, to explode in an uprising of emotions in The Watermelon Riot.

Old letters drew Scott Reneau from his high paying journalism career in Portland Maine to the small southern town of Gallatin Arkansas. Now working the news desk for a rural paper, he found himself demoted and again staring at a pile of old letters.

Michelle Butler was a local girl from the top of her head to the soles of her feet, but she'd been burned by big city dreams and men. When she decided to take a chance on Scott and share her family's passionate history, she hoped to catch the sexy reporter's eye, but her grandparents had other plans in mind.

Will he be able to realize that there is more to local images? Will he be able to fight the fire within him that the caramel colored beauty erupts in him?