Rae Ann had hopes for a nice, normal life until she saw Skip barrel out from behind that little country store in Paradox in the wake of an armed robbery. Her vow to make a better life for herself generates suspicion in a town where girls who have not married by the time they are twenty are surely destined to be old maids. Skip keeps coming back like a bad penny, but Rae Ann has other plans. She’s going to go to school and make a better life â€" drama queens and squirrelly boyfriends notwithstanding.
She’s sometimes weak, and sometimes Superwoman in her quest for something that is exactly what it seems in a town called Paradox.