Brandon, MS: Dogwood Press (2020)

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A college party Wayne Jacobs and the love of his life, Missy Vance, didn’t really want to attend. A final beer Wayne didn’t need before he got behind the wheel. A horrific crash which killed Missy and, in many ways, destroyed Wayne, a beloved young man from a good Leakesville, Mississippi, family with a bright future.

Though Wayne spent twenty years at the state penitentiary in the Mississippi Delta, he just can’t let go of the guilt. Reminders of Missy are everywhere, including her still-grieving and angry mother, Margie, who lives nearby and hasn’t spoken to Wayne since the accident.

Then there’s Lacy Chamberlin, a young journalist who’s eager to revisit the thirty-year- old tragedy and discuss the accompanying fallout with everyone close to Wayne, even his mother and their pastor. She’s also harboring a secret that will turn Wayne’s life upside down all over again.

A hard-hitting tale of loss, grief, and redemption with characters so real you feel like you know them, Missy will make you laugh, cry, and think about what’s really important in life—and why it’s so crucial that we learn to forgive.

Randy Pierce grew up in Greene County, Mississippi, and splits time living there and in Oxford, Mississippi. A graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi and the University of Mississippi School Of Law, he has served in the state legislature, on the Mississippi Supreme Court, and has been the director of the Mississippi Judicial College in Oxford since 2016. Missy is his fourth novel.