IT WAS LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT when an Oklahoma farm boy named Troy met Hettie Elizabeth Lamar. Pearl Harbor had been bombed six months earlier, and a pretty Mississippi belle came to Oklahoma to escape the memories of a brother recently lost somewhere out in the Pacific. Within a year, Troy and Hettie were happily married, and within another year a beautiful baby girl came along. The light of her daddy's life, BILLIE JO was a bright, normal little girl, full of fun and promise. From all appearances, this was the perfect family. What could possibly happen to change all of that? SOUTHERN BY THE GRACE OF GOD bestselling author, Michael Andrew Grissom, takes the reader back to his native Oklahoma for a nostalgic escapade of mystery and romance. A chilling tale, with literary devices that remind the reader of Alfred Hitchcock.