
When Bobby died in a car wreck with another woman at his side, Bena was left with five kids, a small house, and a big empty place in her heart. Five years later, she's got two daughters who've run off with no-good men, a backyard full of marijuana plants none of her kids will...

Set in contemporary small town America, this is the story of Verbena Martin Eckert McHale ("Bena," for short), an indomitable woman who is damned--but not doomed--by the bad behavior and bad luck of her two husbands. When Bena's first husband, Bobby Eckert, dies in a car wreck,...