In his second book, Allen Wildmon has taken incidents from the pages of Mississippi history and turned them into a gripping novel of passion, illicit sex, and murder. A statue of his main character Colonel William C. Falkner towers over all others in the Ripley, Mississippi cemetery. Wildmon, rendering Falkner's story in fictional terms, shows his readers why Falkner was a figure larger than life and why his flamboyant story is worth telling. Falkner...