Martha Moses Kane—a former rodeo queen and a shirttail relative of Annie Oakley—sees being an 80-year-old widow as no obstacle, but a banquet. By staying fit, loving pets, and baking pies for a cafe and her daughter’s Bed, Barn & Breakfast, she blows a raspberry at old age.

But she’s bored. She wants more. Color. Excitement. Maybe a man. When her daughter dragoons her into headlining a Wild West show like her famous 19th-century sharpshooter cousin, she reluctantly agrees. But practicing is a blast. Especially with her movie-star-handsome older neighbor Woody Woodhouse. And the new costume fires her up. Her star will rise again.

There’s only one hitch: Woody shot a trespasser on his hemp grow and is rumored to poach elk and deer all over the neighborhood—endangering Martha, her family, and resort guests, with her best friend coming to visit. Can Martha realize her desire to live larger, be a role model, and stop the poaching? Or will she crash and burn?

Welcome to the deliciously daring and often dangerous world of Granny Oakley, who thinks life begins again at 80. A country girl with big-city savvy, she wasn’t satisfied with cameo roles in the five Pepper Kane Mysteries. Now she squeezes the day in books of her own.