Delia's Place Author:Lin Stepp Delia Eleanor Walker's life is perfectly planned. The wedding date is set, the invitations mailed. Her family is gathered at a North Carolina beach house ready to celebrate when Delia receives Prentice's unexpected Fed-Ex announcing he has married someone else!What on earth will she do?Delia centered every aspect of her future around her upcomin... more »g marriage, and she knows her family will somehow blame the breakup on her. They always do. They'll call it one more immature botch by the baby of the family.In her lap, among the mail just received, Delia seizes on the answer--an invitation from Maureen Cross for a last visit to her aunt Dee's old cottage near Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Delia knows it's cowardly to run, but run she does, hoping to find in the mountain getaway time to heal and space to chart a new direction for her life.Instead of peace and quiet, Delia finds a troubled cousin she's never met hiding out in her aunt's house and a childhood playmate and heartthrob, Tanner Cross, back in town, reminding her of yet another time she made a fool of herself romantically. To top it off, a criminal is on the loose, along with an increasingly complicated array of problems Delia never expected to encounter.This warm contemporary romance follows Delia as she makes her way through surprising twists of sorrow, suspense, and sweetness amid the beauty of the Great Smoky Mountains and the charm of Gatlinburg.« less