It's the story of a young mountain girl and her family who settle near the Polish town of Panna Maria (Saint Mary) in Karnes County, Texas, in the 1870s. She meets a Polish man and they're married and have a child expecting to have a long and happy life together. Her husband is murdered, and she knows who did it. She and two other women, whose husbands were also killed by the same man, seek to get revenge. The three women plan how to get the murderer to confess. This is the story of how they did it as only R. O. Lane can tell it.
