Candles Burning

Author Michael McDowell, known for his chilling Blackwater series, left behind the unfinished manuscript of Candles Burning on his death in 1999. His close friend, Tabitha King, has taken up where he left off, weaving a Southern gothic fabric of murder, guilt, innocence, corruption, and survival, in the voices of the living and the dead.

Calley Dakin is daddy’s little girl, but her well-born mother persists in contempt for the Dakin name. From an early age, Calley hears things th…