Five women from various backgrounds are brought together by fate to fight as allies for their survival. A retired schoolteacher, an Indian who''s handy with a bow, a young, immigrant widow from London, a brothel worker who''s made off with the till and a fourteen-year-old slave who''s been put in a cage. This unlikely band of adventurers must fight off the violence men resort to when caught in greed''s ubiquitous grip. They''ll do it with arrows, pies, brooms, pots, knitting-needles, and a lethal revolver that becomes even more dangerous in the hands of the sharpest-shooter of them all: a teenager who''s been whipped, locked in a cage and freed only to fall victim to pneumonia. These women have got each other''s backs and don''t take kindly to the worst mankind has to offer.