If Violet Temple has learned anything in her almost 60 years, it's how to set a boundary.

Well, she's trying anyway. When Kyle Garner and Josh Albans ask to rent kayaks from her Juneau, Alaska guiding business, she says no. After all, they want to paddle to Egret Island, which is both impossible (due to the famously wild waters in Southeast Alaska) and pointless (there's nothing on the island, save a decrepit fox farm).

But apparently there's more to the island than meets the eye. A ragtag bunch of former residents. A few ratty fox pelts. Ample tall tales about life on the edges of society. And maybe the missing work of 1950s mega-famous romance novelist Dierdre St. Claire, which is rumored to be stashed with a hermit she had an affair with decades earlier. Kyle, St. Claire's spurned heir, believes not only in the mystery manuscript but also in its value on the market. After immersing himself in the online manosphere, he's pretty sure he deserves control of St. Claire's legacy. The parts that will make him money, anyway. And he's letting no one stop him. Not Josh Albans. Surely not Violet Temple.

What's a menopausal woman to do when a clueless young man threatens her business and her new-found friends? And tries to steal the work of a legend? Violet's about to show all the people who don't see her what she's really made of.

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Lucille Weston Battles the Beach Master: An accidental church lady persuades her women’s group to write erotica to earn the money to buy a bible camp and make it queer friendly, but she must beat out the pastor of the conservative local megachurch to do it.

Caroline VanderMeer Lands the Prize Fish: A marine biologist discovers something fishy about the local mine, but something even fishier might be going on with a group of ecoterrorists.

Peggy Newfound Bags the Big Game: An 83 year old local legend of an outdoors woman has to go to uncharted territory (meaning: anything inside) to figure out who is at the center of the plan to wrest away local control of historical sites. 

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