Places in the Heart — Delaney Devers

Startlingly handsome Kip Yeager has always been special to Mary Alice -- as a childhood confidant, stand-in escort, supportive "brother." Now there's a searing new tension between them. But it's folly to think such a paragon of masculine splendor, such a collector of female hearts, could ever truly love a plain Jane like her...

Kip Yeager has everything he's ever wanted -- except the one woman who holds a special place in his heart. Only Mary Alice keeps his easy successes in perspective, spurns coy games with lively disputes that end in laughter...and remains blind to his desire. Until the fateful night when tragedy plunges them into guilt and longing...