Primitive Dusty Larkin was born to the degradation of the Florida swamps. To her, men were merely tools to be used in the shaping of a more exciting way of life.

Dusty married Dolph Larkin to escape from a drunken, amoral mother. To get away from vicious, sadistic Dolph, she moved in with punch-drunk, ex-fighter Shoofly Gibbs. And for a change, she had a fling with Shoofly's younger brother, Tucker...

Her final move was to Varden Kemper, a man with a hot appetite for female flesh and a crippled wife who would leave him five million dollars if he and Dusty could manage to ease her into the next world.