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"Get ready to laugh! Elizabeth Bass Parman is a true Southern storyteller. I couldn't have loved it more." -Fannie Flagg, New York Times bestselling author

Posey Jarvis knows she's the rightful empress of Cooke County . . . She just needs to make everyone else realize it too.

Thirty-eight-year-old Posey…

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In the winter of 1966, thirty-eight-year-old Posey Burch Jarvis has had enough of her unglamorous Tennessee small town life. Posey styles her hair, clothes and makeup after Jackie Kennedy and pines for the dashing and wealthy doctor, known as CJ, who seduced her at the tender age of nineteen. For too long she’s been married to much older Vern. He owns and runs a second-hand store. They live in a small suburban house with their eighteen-year-old daughter, Callie Jane.
Callie Jane is engaged to her lifelong best friend, Trace. Attractive Callie Jane was her high school valedictorian and almost the…

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