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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Drunken Botanist comes an enthralling novel based on the forgotten- true story of one of the USs first female deputy sheriffs. Constance Kopp doesnt quite fit the mould. She towers over most men- has no interest in marriage or domestic affairs- and has been isolated from the world since a family secret sent her and her sisters from the city to the country fifteen years before. When a powerful- ruthless factory owner runs down their buggy- a dispute over damages turns into a war of bricks- bullets- and threats as he unleashes his gang on their farm. The sheriff enlists her help- and it turns out that Constance has a knack for outwitting (and disarming) the criminal element- which might just take her back out into the world and onto a new path in life. Through Amy Stewarts exuberant storytelling- Constance Kopp catapults from a forgotten historical anecdote to an unforgettable historical-fiction heroine - an outsized woman not only ahead of her time- but sometimes even ahead of ours....