Marcia LeQueux is Boatnerville, Mississippi's dynamic newspaper publisher, who owns The Green Monkey Press, an up and coming newspaper in South Benton County. Life seems to be going very well for the young businesswoman until she is beaten, gang-raped and left for dead, after having published a number of controversial articles. But, Marcia doesn't die and is soon back on the scene - trying to figure out the who, what, when, where and, most definitely, the why, regarding her rape while daydreaming of revenge - amidst the lush, late summer landscape of northern Mississippi.