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<p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Conflicts in a small Southern town bubble to the surface in this </span><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>tale of repression and prophecy</strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> the second book in The Jexville Chronicles trilogy. Sixteen-year-old Mattie comes to Mississippi in the summer of 1926 as a mail-order bride and finds a quiet deeply religious community wrapped in rigid views of a woman's proper role. When Duncan McVay the nine-year-old daughter of Jexville's most controversial woman </span><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>is struck by lightning while dancing</strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> the townspeople are horrified when she doesn't die but survives-and is given the gift of prophecy. Abused and mistreated by her handsome husband Mattie defends Duncan. She finds comfort in her friendship with JoHanna and the McVay family but </span><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>defying the town has consequences</strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>. When a hurricane lashes the area the townspeople blame Duncan. Action leads to tragedy. For both Mattie and Johanna the future holds heartache but ultimately </span><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>a long-awaited and stunningly executed revenge</strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>.</span></p>