num_pages: 408
description: A novel based on the forgotten true story of one of the nations first female deputy sheriffs. Constance Kopp doesnt quite fit the mold. 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 into hiding fifteen years ago. One day a belligerent and powerful silk factory owner runs down their buggy and a dispute over damages turns into a war of bricks bullets and threats as he unleashes his gang on their family farm. When the sheriff enlists her help in convicting the men Constance is forced to confront her past and defend her family  and she does it in a way that few women of 1914 would have dared. 
language: English
title: Girl Waits with Gun
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt