Sixteen-year-old Eli Harwell knows what it means to work hard ground.

On his family's rural property, there are fences to mend, animals to tend, and chores that do not wait for anyone to feel ready. But beneath the ordinary rhythms of work and family, Eli is beginning to discover another kind of ground, the hidden places where faith is tested, wounds take root, and a young man must decide what kind of person he will become.

As pressures inside and outside the Harwell family begin to surface, Eli finds himself confronting questions that cannot be answered by simply working harder. Questions about his father. About himself. About the faith he has inherited. And about whether God can truly use the difficult things in a life rather than merely allowing them.

Set against the quiet beauty and hard realities of rural life, Worn Ground is a story of family, faith, growing up, and the slow work of grace. It is about the things handed down from one generation to the next, the lessons learned through ordinary labor, and the truth that some of the deepest growth happens where the ground has been broken hardest.

Nothing is wasted. Not one thing.