The Woman Who Would Not Die (n/a)

Book Description:
A story of the South in transition. A young woman suffers incest. The baby is abandoned, eventually to die an alcoholic in the town dump. Young lovers are kept apart forever. Leda Roess manipulates the lives of all around her with an unforgiving hand. This is the world Franklin Judd inherits and from which he struggles all his life to escape. When taken hostage with his dad and Bill King at a hunting cabin deep in a north Florida swamp, all four men, including the gunman, discover they've been victims of Grandma Roess. But she's dead, except to Franklin. Her secrets become his secrets and haunt his days and nights, until . . . In the end, all that's left to do is to tell the story.