"Ellen Delay, an upstanding citizen of Quillifarkeag, suddenly and unpredictably leaves her happy, twenty-five year marriage for a lonely cabin deep in the Maine woods, where she makes a living dressing hunters' kill - bears, moose, deer. Ever the practical housekeeper, she does the bloody skinning and dressing in the nude to save on laundry. Now and again she fires her rifle into the air to scare off cheeky teens who come to taunt the "crazy woman."".

"Unconventional, yes. Psychotic, no. Dangerous, not at all." "But she's a woman living outside the societal norm, thereby causing a lot of idle conjecture. So Ellen's a dead duck long before two hundred rounds are fired at her by four other women, all of them associated with the law. "Just another nut gunned down," explains their leader, who's about to get away with murder."--BOOK JACKET.