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The Last Sunset in Dixie
Paperback
Series: Masks of Belle Hallow, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 20 2025
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Mississippi, 1861. White columns, neat ledgers, polite smiles-and a lie big enough to get the Duval family killed. Belle Hallow is their mask: a grand plantation run by a white-passing Black family who use wealth and respectability to hide a covert network moving enslaved people to freedom.
When war conscripts Elijah Duval and his two sons into the Confederate ranks, the façade-and the danger-fall to Evelyn Duval. With Isaac, the quiet architect of routes, and Ruth, mistress of kitchen-codes, Evelyn fights off greedy neighbors and watchful deputies while keeping the house behaving for the law. Recipes become ciphers. Ledgers split-one for daylight, one for truth. Storm nights and market days turn into corridors no clerk can see.
A by-the-book inspector who prefers daylight may be an unlikely shield, but a ruthless local colonel is closing in. As rumors tighten, and news from the front brings a devastating loss, Evelyn risks everything on a bold, daylight exodus-before the last guardrails of law are reassigned and the county's appetite takes the house.
The Last Sunset in Dixie is a tense, heart-forward historical thriller about passing, resistance, and the cost of telling the truth in a county built on a lie. Book One of Masks of Belle Hallow-perfect for readers who love richly drawn characters, moral complexity, and high-stakes cat-and-mouse suspense.
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