For Love of Elvira

About the Book

At a time when there is very little entertainment except for an occasional barn dance or a shopping trip to Pontotoc or Toccopola, the Baptist Church is the big show, and the Reverend James Robert Williams is the star. After a successful spring revival in 1914 in which sixty-four souls are brought into the fold, the handsome silver-tongued preacher falls from grace into the open arms of the lovely Elvira. The preacher finds himself faced with two choices: duty, honor, and respectability on the one hand, and on the other, Simon-pure love blended and harmonized with the steamy passion of carnal lust. The constable, Little Joe, who pursues the couple, was actually the author's grandfather.

About the Author

The author was born and raised during the Great Depression in rural Pontotoc County, Mississippi, and was lucky to have been surrounded by family storytellers of the Celtic tradition, those spinners of tall tales and keepers of oral family history. This is the author’s first attempt at putting one of those stories in the written form.