Cassie Carter and her seven-year-old daughter Aimee barely escape from her physically abusive husband, Duke. At eighteen and pregnant, Cassie ran from her family home in Spokane, Washington only to be isolated in Florida by her new husband. Sequestered from her family and friends, she receives broken bones, black eyes and multiple contusions and bruises. Escaping from a window and running to a women's rescue was all that saved her life when Duke headed for the kitchen for a knife. Finally receiving the support needed to put him behind bars, Cassie and Aimee relocate to Seattle where she works as a hairstylist at a local salon and volunteers as a victim advocate. Through these years she has been completely isolated from her sisters, Karen and Nichole, as well as her parents.

Starting over with absolutely nothing, she applies to Habitat for Humanity and is accepted. Along with the promise of a home, she must volunteer 500 hours on the construction of their projects. Getting off on the wrong foot with the supervisor of the construction site, Steve Brody, eventually they meet in the middle. Steve lost his loving wife three years ago to cancer and still bares the loss. Gruffness is all he has now until unexpected feelings grab him by the throat for the new helper. Her now twelve-year-old daughter only encourages Steve's attempts at courting her. Her parents have passed and she has finally received a reply from her sisters for a possible reunion while Steve is putting undue pressure on her to form a more permanent relationship. After the abuse, how is she to be certain she isn't getting into the same situation as with her last husband and will she be able to bridge the ocean of hurt and misunderstanding with her siblings?

There is so much more to LAST ONE HOME. The heartbreaking issues of separation and loss of parents and siblings, only scratches the surface. Creative information is given to the reader of the consequences and terror of an abusive marriage. Managing to find redeeming qualities in a man after near death from another, is emotional and takes renewed faith. Debbie Macomber never disappoints me. I snatch up every story this woman writes, even though she keeps me crying through half of it and my heart aches. She always manages to leave me with a warming of the soul and fuzzy feelings that stays for days. If you don't grab LAST ONE HOME, it's your definite loss!