You can go home again—if you can get a foot in the door.Mercury Rising, Book 1A year after packing and moving from L.A. to Mercury, North Carolina, John Ford stillhasn’t adjusted to the heat. Or to life without his long-time partner. As he fixes up the oldhouse he bought, the quiet becomes his only companion, and he’s content with that—untila deep-voiced stranger plants himself under a tree across the street.Eight years ago, Connor Meecham left someone behind in that house—himself. Nowhe’s back to find the man he used to be, before drugs and prison sent his life careening offthe tracks. But it’s not his mother’s face peering through the window any more. It’s a manwho seems as lost as Conn himself.When John learns what the house—and the dying town—mean to Conn, he findshimself opening the door to his heart. Just a crack. But it’s enough to get mixed up in a worldof emotions as complicated as the recipe for the perfect cherry pie. Where one misstep canturn something sweet and juicy into one hot mess.This book has been previously published.Warning: Contains a guitar-wielding, brooding Southern boy and a reclusive millionairewith a weakness for cherry pie and hot coffee. Excessive porch sittin’ and lemonade included.