It’s 1999 in Southeast Texas and the Evans women owners of the only funeral parlor in town
are keeping steady with… normal business. The dead die you bury them. End of story. That’s how
Ducey Evans has done it for the last eighty years and her progeny―Lenore the experimenter and
Grace Lenore’s soft-hearted daughter have run Evans Funeral Parlor for the last fifteen years
without drama. Ever since That Godawful Mess that left two bodies in the ground and Grace
raising her infant daughter Luna alone. But when town gossip Mina Jean Murphy’s body is
brought in for a regular burial and she rises from the dead instead it’s clear that the
Strigoi―the original vampire―are back. And the Evans women are the ones who need to fight back
to protect their town. As more folks in town turn up dead and Deputy Roger Taylor begins
asking way too many questions Ducey Lenore Grace and now Luna must take up their blades
and figure out who is behind the Strigoi’s return. As the saying goes what rises up must go
back down. But as unspoken secrets and revelations spill from the past into the present the
Evans family must face that sometimes the dead aren’t the only things you want to keep buried.
A crackling mystery-horror novel with big-hearted characters and Southern charm with a bite
Bless Your Heart is a gasp-worthy delight from start to finish.
