Picture it. You’re 87-years-old. A harmless little old lady that’s never even had a speeding ticket. And you’re being carted off to jail!

It all started with a 300-pound insidious crispy cadaver tangled up in Sally’s desert hideaway fence. He was not invited. But neither was the rare male calico cat that drew him into her secured sanctuary like a magnet.

Sally’s part? All she wanted was a safe place for herself and her mankin, Rodney, to live without being marauded again. She’s given refuge to vagabond people or creatures more than once. She told the cat he could stay as long as he doesn’t hunt in the critter picnic area.

But going to jail for her efforts to put the kibosh on lurking lunatics bent on stealing a cat was not on her to do list at all! Not in a million years!

With the cell door slammed shut, her mankin trying to get thrown in the hoosgow with her, and a zealous new DA, it’s not looking hopeful for Sally. Will she escape unscathed from this one?

P.S. This is the cat that inspired Rodney and Teague to add a spay and neuter clinic donation button to the Alexie Linn Author website.