I'm about halfway through The Snakewoman of Little Egypt by Robert Hellegna, and its quite good. A young woman released from prison after shooting her abusive husband (she didn't kill him) receives a small inheritance from an uncle who was a custodian at a small college; she goes there, starts classes and a relationship with an anthro professor. Hellegna is a good storyteller. His book The Sixteen Pleasures was a good narrative altho a complete different story.