“When Jerry parked at Castle Rock and stepped outside his car, his heart caught inside his chest. It was as if the landscape knew he was leaving and had written a love letter on its shores.”
So begins “The Husked Heart,” the story of an alien living in a human-appearing husk. After twenty years, Southern California is the closest thing to home that Jerry has ever known. Now he must relocate to a strange new place, where he has to wonder whether he has left the feeling of home behind forever.