Embrace Me — Lisa Samson

A scarred woman immersed in the strange world of a traveling circus finds love of another kind.

Valentine endlessly listens to her mother's old copy of "Embraceable You" on an old phonograph, but her own life hardly begs for romance. Her deepening friendship with a quadriplegic woman offers a welcome, if frustrating, sense of dependence, but romantic love is nowhere in sight. Then along comes a dread-locked and scarred local with a hidden history and a compelling present. Will Valentine find the embrace she longs for?