Mildred Wells menaced her town for more than a century--but one fateful day, someone evened the score. What torments most her is the lie she believed. Tricked, played the fool?humiliated. Hopes of reconciling with her son were also stolen. Long, empty days of reflection and lament kindle an obsession with vengeance. She decides they all must pay-not only those that so recently conspired but everyone that ever wronged her. They won't see it coming, for she can wait. They will endure her wrath only after they feel their safest.