Starlight On Kansas

Amazing cover by @KatherineWitherspoon!
Loretta's a little stressed out. She's got a dead (murdered?) brother, mentally unstable mom, and an aunt who thinks the best solution is to send Lorrie to her father's friend in Ohio, a (maybe attractive?) Air Force pilot who's feeding off the government's lies.
About aliens.
Oh, yeah. There are aliens. Forget the Russians and Korea and the terrifyingly unjust way of life of a girl in 1951, Lorrie's in way over her head.
It's going to be a crazy summer.

Rural Kansas, 1951.
Six months ago, fifteen-year-old Loretta's brother died in a tragic accident. Now she struggles to take care of herself and her lost, neglectful mother.
After an incident that proves she's no longer up for the task, she's sent to live with her late father's friend. The night before she leaves, she witnesses the unimaginable...aliens.
When people brush off her encounter as grief and anxiety, Loretta sets out to prove she isn't the broken girl everyone thinks she is, and that extraterrestrials are more science than science fiction.
But her pent-up emotions are rising, and it's only a matter of time before she's forced to face not the truths she wants to find, but she ones she can't accept.
When things spiral into the impossible, Loretta learns that appearances are charades, and everyone has secrets as dirty as her own-secrets that, when messed with, may have consequences bigger than life itself.