Stella Hardesty, a widow and survivor of domestic violence, who owns a sewing shop in a sleepy Missouri town. Thankfully Stella lives in a small town where while people may ignore the problems they know what the problems. So after Stella gets off after killing her husband in "self-defence" after years of physical and mental abuse. She needs more than the sewing shop to keep her mind occupied.
Stella believes that she needs to help battered women like she was as a form of redemption for putting up with Ollie much too long and as an avenging angel dispatching retribution on these bullies. Stella keeps an eye on Roy Dean Shaw, ex mean ass husband of gentle mom Chrissy Shaw. When Roy Dean abducts Chrissy's two years old son Tucker, Stella decides this punk needs a permanent lesson in how to treat a lady. She affirms her feelings about this abusive moron when she learns he is part of the stolen auto parts mob. Chrissy, upset with his taking her infant, has had enough. As Sheriff Goat Jones watches Stella with his dreamy eyes, she hopes it is for her body and not her activity as she leads Chrissy into hell as they team up to take care of Roy Dean and his car ring associates to rescue the baby from the mob.
I'm not sure how I heard about this book but the title definitely intrigued me. But it was a lot more to it than this kind of glib cover suggests. It appears there is a sequel so I'm looking forward to it.