[4][1] Unusually for the series, the book also contains several explicit sex scenes, including a detailed one with a 14 year old, and a couple minor homosexual references.

Her exact whereabouts are unknown; however, there are many tales that she fled off with a lover or was killed by her envious husband, Philemon "Foley" Sullivan.

While Liza found Violet's independence inspiring, everyone else in town considered her a woman of loose morals, who brought out the worst in everyone she met, including her husband.

Violet visited the Cramer Chevrolet dealership and convinced junior salesman Winston Smith to lend her a Bel Air, whereupon she drove to the bank and withdrew all her savings.

Liza reveals that she was at the construction site that night with local "bad boy" Ty Eddings, where they witnessed a man digging a hole with an excavator.

Kinsey confronts Liza, who admits that Foley's treatment of Violet, along with Ty's leaving town the next day, colored her perspective.