Touch Me Gently — D. Jackson Leigh

Secrets lead to nothing but trouble and heartbreak.

Newly arrived in the small Southern town of Oakboro, Salem Lacy is planning to keep a low profile after an ill-timed step out of the closet cost her the corporate job and high-powered friends she had in Atlanta. That plan derails when Salem meets the mysterious and beautiful Knox Bolander, a woman who is whispered to cause odd and sometimes dangerous things to happen. When a fire that occurred twenty years earlier on the Bolander estate threatens to destroy Salem's chance to rebuild her life, she must decide if she will risk everything again for this secretive woman who has been rarely touched and never loved.