Angela Jordan is the author of the astonishing, uplifting, and hilarious account of maverick governor Kirk Fordice and his family. We End in Joy: Memoirs of a First Daughter offers an extraordinary perspective on public life in an intimate account from the daughter of a highly controversial southern governor and a widely beloved first lady.

 Molly Walling is the author of Death in the Delta: Uncovering a Mississippi Family Secret, a non-fiction book about the shooting death of two returning black soldiers on the Mississippi Delta just after World War II and the suspected involvement of her own weekly newspaper editor father, a returning bomber pilot, during a time of roiling change in the deep South