Sunset in the Sound (hardcover) Candace Cox Wheeler

In 1951, wide-open gambling is both a way of life for fun-loving Biloxi residents and a way of enticing tourists with post-war money to burn. However, that’s not the only thing burning, as one nightclub after another is erupting in flames.

Mac Simpson, a fresh-faced eighteen-year-old from Savannah, Georgia, is studying electronics at Keesler Air Force Base as part of his four-year commitment to the country he loves. When Mac meets Vickie Burns, a gorgeous musician with a beautiful voice who dreams of sharing the stage one day with Hank Williams, he thinks he’s found the girl of his dreams.

But trouble looms in paradise. Vickie’s ex-fiancée threatens Mac when belittling the airman doesn’t drive the couple apart. And when Mac and Vickie recognize a young man who seems to turn up at nearly every fire scene and question him, are they now in danger?

Then there’s Carlo Bandini, shockingly released from prison in Angola and eager to eliminate Judge David Tauzin, whose testimony helped put him behind bars two decades earlier. Judge Tauzin married Cradle in the Oak heroine Carrie Burns nearly a half century ago, and the eighty-year-old patriarch is Vickie’s grandfather and will do anything to protect his family.

April 2024