Any recommendations for reading any of these?

Mmmm... another clueless male trying to save pride while inadvertently hurting the female he was attracted to. This one may have been worse - he knew she felt unwanted, yet never ever gave her reason to believe she was anything more than a convenience - at least not until the end.

At least it wasn't as painful a read.

Still, I wonder, constantly, why people who find themselves dealing with small town prejudice remain there. At least he did leave his home town, but going to another small town nearby isn't really helping. She, OTOH, has spent her entire life in a town where everyone knew her mother got pregnant at 16, and killed herself 10 years later. And then she gets pg herself, and marries him - after locals figured out he'd been accused of murdering his wife (he didn't).

Of course the crime has to be solved in order for them to have any sort of life in bumblefart nowheresville. Then it's all better now. You know, I'd have a hard time ever forgetting what people said.