Midnight Under the Magnolia, episode 1 — Gwenn Wright

From a town where cell phone reception is sketchy if not all-together nonexistent, Twenty-two year old Dacie Mae MacIver is discontent with her small town life. Tucked away in the hills, she has big city dreams of being a journalist. With the encouragement of US Deputy Marshal Harrison McClain and the discouragement of her widowed mother warring in her heart, Dacie Mae fights through each day trying to gain the strength and experience to finally break free of the chains of her hometown. Early one spring morning the embodiment of all she is trying to get away from comes strolling back into Wallace with his guitar slung on his back.

Henry James Wallace, heartbreaker and independent recording artist, has come home. While the town seems to have forgiven him of his sins, Dacie Mae can't get past what he did to her. Not even a day passes before the rocker is up to his usual games and things turn deadly.

**This is a serialized story, being told in regular installments--like a television series. This installment is approximately 7,700 words.***