Bless Your Heart

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 from debut author Lindy Ryan. Rise and shine. The Evans women have some undead to kill. ItΓÇÖs 1999 in Southeast Texas and the Evans womenowners of the only funeral parlor in townare keeping steady with…normal business. The dead dieyou bury them. End of story. ThatΓÇÖs how Ducey Evans has done it for the last eighty yearsand her progenyΓÇöLenore the experimenter and GraceLenoreΓÇÖs soft-hearted daughterhave 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 Lunaalone. But when town gossip Mina Jean MurphyΓÇÖs body is brought in for a regular burial and she rises from the dead insteaditΓÇÖs clear that the StrigoiΓÇöthe original vampireΓÇöare 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 questionsDuceyLenoreGraceand now Lunamust take up their blades and figure out who is behind the StrigoiΓÇÖs return. As the saying goeswhat rises upmust go back down. But as unspoken secrets and revelations spill from the past into the presentthe Evans family must face that sometimesthe dead arenΓÇÖt the only things you want to keep buried. \