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Last One Home

Last One Home

A Novel
Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Blossom Street and Cedar Cove series, delivers an inspiring new stand-alone novel about the enduring bond between sisters, the power of forgiveness, and a second chance at love.

Growing up, Cassie Carter and her sisters, Karen and Nichole, were incredibly close--until one fateful event drove them apart. After high school, Cassie ran away from home to marry the wrong man, throwing away a college scholarship and breaking her parents' hearts. To make matters worse, Cassie had always been their father's favorite--a sentiment that weighed heavily on her sisters and made Cassie's actions even harder to bear.

Now thirty-one, Cassie is back in Washington, living in Seattle with her daughter and hoping to leave her past behind. After ending a difficult marriage, Cassie is back on her own two feet, the pieces of her life slowly but surely coming together. Despite the strides Cassie's made, she hasn't been able to make peace with her sisters. Karen, the oldest, is a busy wife and mother, balancing her career with raising her two children. And Nichole, the youngest, is a stay-at-home mom whose husband indulges her every whim. Then one day, Cassie receives a letter from Karen, offering what Cassie thinks may be a chance to reconcile. And as Cassie opens herself up to new possibilities--making amends with her sisters, finding love once more--she realizes the power of compassion, and the promise of a fresh start.

A wonderful novel of perseverance and trust, and an exciting journey through life's challenges and joys, Last One Home is Debbie Macomber at the height of her talents.


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Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Blossom Street and Cedar Cove series, delivers an inspiring new stand-alone novel about the enduring bond between sisters, the power of forgiveness, and a second chance at love.

Growing up, Cassie Carter and her sisters, Karen and Nichole, were incredibly close--until one fateful event drove them apart. After high school, Cassie ran away from home to marry the wrong man, throwing away a college scholarship and breaking her parents' hearts. To make matters worse, Cassie had always been their father's favorite--a sentiment that weighed heavily on her sisters and made Cassie's actions even harder to bear.

Now thirty-one, Cassie is back in Washington, living in Seattle with her daughter and hoping to leave her past behind. After ending a difficult marriage, Cassie is back on her own two feet, the pieces of her life slowly but surely coming together. Despite the strides Cassie's made, she hasn't been able to make peace with her sisters. Karen, the oldest, is a busy wife and mother, balancing her career with raising her two children. And Nichole, the youngest, is a stay-at-home mom whose husband indulges her every whim. Then one day, Cassie receives a letter from Karen, offering what Cassie thinks may be a chance to reconcile. And as Cassie opens herself up to new possibilities--making amends with her sisters, finding love once more--she realizes the power of compassion, and the promise of a fresh start.

A wonderful novel of perseverance and trust, and an exciting journey through life's challenges and joys, Last One Home is Debbie Macomber at the height of her talents.


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    The impossibly thin woman sitting next to Cassie Carter in the King County Courthouse in Seattle trembled like an oak leaf in a storm. When the judge entered the courtroom and they were asked to rise, Maureen could barely manage to get to her feet. Cassie wrapped her arm around the other woman's waist and helped her to stand upright. Maureen was skin and bone, so thin Cassie could feel her ribs. She'd been that thin once herself. Like Maureen, she had been beaten down, battered, and emotionally broken.

    "You're doing great," Cassie whispered. She understood all too well what courage it took for

    Maureen to testify against her husband. Cassie had sat in a similar courtroom in Florida, only she'd sat alone. Duke, her husband, had glared at her as she'd slowly walked toward the witness stand, his dark eyes filled with hatred. Eyes that said he would kill her if he got the chance.
    He nearly had.

    They'd been married only a few months when Duke hit her the first time. He'd had a few beers with friends and come home and found Cassie didn't yet have dinner ready. To show her how displeased he was, he'd slapped her. Cassie had been stunned. Her father had never laid a hand on her mother or her, nor her two sisters. Horrified, she'd pressed her hand to her cheek, hardly knowing what to think.

    That was the first of many such slaps. Afterward he was sorry. He felt horrible that he could do anything to hurt the woman he loved beyond life itself. He'd cover his face and weep, begging her forgiveness. The irony of it was that she, the one who'd been hurt, would rationalize his anger and comfort him. Shocking, really, when she thought about it. Duke hit her and she was the one who apologized.

    As the years progressed, the slaps turned to slugs and the slugs into beatings. During the last beating she'd seen that very look in his eyes, the same one he gave her the day she stood in a Florida courtroom.

    The look that said her days were numbered. She would pay for what she'd done.

    That final time, as Duke's fists pounded down on her, Cassie had been terrified by the cold hate in her husband's eyes. Duke would not stop until he killed her. It was as clear as the writing on a highway billboard. In that breathless moment, Cassie knew beyond a doubt that she was about to die. She lost consciousness briefly, and when she came to again she heard him rifling through the kitchen drawers. She knew he was searching for a knife.

    Carried by adrenaline, numb with fear, she managed to escape into her daughter's bedroom and blocked the door by tilting a chair beneath the knob. She grabbed seven—year—old Amiee and fled out the window.

    She didn't take her purse or her identification or any money. And she had no friends, no resources. Just her daughter and the clothes on her back.

    Cassie hadn't needed anything else. The one precious thing that had come out of her marriage had been her daughter. Fleeing to a women's shelter, Cassie was given housing and assistance.

    Duke was arrested and sentenced to a six—month jail term.

    Cassie had taken those months to put her life together. And to try to make her way back to the good life she'd left behind. The hardest part hadn't even been leaving Duke after all—-it was that she didn't have her family's support. She was on her own, without her parents, without her sisters. She had to do it alone, and so she had.

    "What if the judge doesn't believe me?" Maureen whispered, her voice trembling to the point that her words were barely discernible.

    "He has the police report," Cassie assured her.

    "I . . . I don't know that I can...
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