The following is excepted from Andromeda Romano-Lax's latest novel, Annie and the Wolves , about female revenge and the allure of changing one's past. Romano-Lax is the author of several books, including The Spanish Bow , a New York Times Editors' Choice that has been translated into 11 languages. She is a co-founder of 49 Writers, a statewide literary organization in Alaska, and lives on a small island in British Columbia. Friday Ruth was just out the door for her speaking engagement at the local high school, laptop bag over her shoulder, when the delivery truck pulled into her driveway. She paused with a hand on the knob, fresh fall Minnesota air filling her lungs, watching as the man in brown shorts approached.