Wear Your Heart on Your Skin — L.A. Marlowe

~Editor's Pick~

The morning after her younger sister's funeral, Cassandra McKellan packed her bags and crossed the state line before noon. Six years and an ailing father later, she finds herself back in the small town she grew up in. Everyone calls it a homecoming, but the word home doesn't hold much meaning for her anymore.

There aren't many things she missed about the place -- not the way no one knows how to mind their own business, not the lack of restaurants that provide delivery, or the empty, dark house that she's now stuck with. It only takes a chance encounter with Ian Walker in the town's podunk excuse for a grocery store for her to realize maybe there is a thing or two that she's been missing.

Over the course of one night, she discovers those things are home after all.