Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: The Arrival of a Tall Dark Stranger
Chapter Two: Bo and Lucille's Big News
Chapter Three: Best Cure for the Post-Holiday Blues
Chapter Four: The Return of Mary Lynn
Chapter Five: Granny Laurite Has Her Say
Chapter Six: Rhonelle Gets a Makeover
Chapter Seven: A Timely Call From Krystal Bridges
Chapter Eight: The Lady With a Bird on Her Shoulder
Chapter Nine: The Story of Vaudine Fortney and Mr. Nasty
Chapter Ten: Leviticus Saves the Day
Chapter Eleven: Going Back to the Big Easy
Chapter Twelve: Dinner at Antoine's
Chapter Thirteen: The Royal (Sonesta) Wedding
Chapter Fourteen: Breakfast at Brennan's
Chapter Fifteen: Back to the New Normal
Chapter Sixteen: Snow Day!
Chapter Seventeen: Louise Dolesanger, Musical Entertainer at Seymour's Tex-Mex
Chapter Eighteen: Candelight Dinner at Don's
Chapter Nineteen: How to Restore a 1964 T-Bird
Chapter Twenty: Peavine Poodle Pageant Time Again
Chapter Twenty-One: The Long Hot Summer
Chapter Twenty-Two: Falling Into Fall Again
Chapter Twenty-Three: Saving Pasto Astor
Chapter Twenty-Four: One Thing Leads to Another
Chapter Twenty-Five: Pink Birthday Cake and Elvis
Chapter Twenty-Six: The Gift
Chapter Twenty-Seven: An Unconventional Thanksgiving
Chapter Twenty-Eight: So Now What?
Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Long-Unread Letter
Chapter Thirty: Hot Chocolate Celebration
Chapter Thirty-One: A Sweet Reunion
Chapter Thirty-Two: Teenie's Bright Idea
Chapter Thirty-Three: The Marching Elvises
Chapter Thirty-Four: A Very Elvis Christmas
Chapter Thirty-Five: More Elvis Than Ever
Chapter Thirty-Six: The Wedding of Tammy Lepanto and Cecil Swindle
Chapter Thirty-Seven: Beware the Ides of March
Chapter Thirty-Eight: Winds of Change
Chapter Thirty-Nine: What to Do With a Leaning Tower of Rock and Roll
Chapter Forty: April Fool's Day
Epilogue
Essay for "Thirty Foot Elvis"
"Q and A" Session with Author Jane F. Hankins
How Road Signs Became Sculptures that Begat a Novel by Jane F. Hankins