Could it be Tilted World by Tom Franklin and his wife Beth Ann Fennelly? Here's the plot summary from Goodreads:
"The year is 1927. As rains swell the Mississippi, the mighty river threatens to burst its banks and engulf all in its path, including federal revenue agent Ted Ingersoll and his partner, Ham Johnson. Arriving in the tiny hamlet of Hobnob, Mississippi, to investigate the disappearance of two fellow agents on the trail of a local bootlegger, they unexpectedly find an abandoned baby boy at a crime scene.
An orphan raised by nuns, Ingersoll is determined to find the infant a home, a search that leads him to Dixie Clay Holliver. A lonely woman married too young to a charming and sometimes violent philanderer, Dixie Clay has lost her only child to illness and is powerless to resist this second chance at motherhood. From the moment they meet, Ingersoll and Dixie Clay are drawn to each other. He has no idea that she's the best bootlegger in the county and may be connected to the missing agents. And while he seems kind and gentle, Dixie Clay knows he is the enemy and must not be trusted.
Then a deadly new peril arises, endangering them all. A saboteur, hired by rich New Orleans bankers eager to protect their city, is planning to dynamite the levee and flood Hobnob, where the river bends precariously. Now, with time running out, Ingersoll, Ham, and Dixie Clay must make desperate choices, choices that will radically transform their lives-if they survive."
Vicki Nesting
Assistant Director
St. Charles Parish Library
Destrehan, Louisiana
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From: Donna Bailey <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2016 2:19 PM
Subject: Book about the South
Does anybody know of a book published between 2000-2010 about a woman who is a widow in the deep south. She is either a waitress or owner of a diner and her want to be boyfriend is a bootlegger.
Thank you
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