In his day, Hitt was known as a writer of "sleaze" and "sex novels", though everything seems rather tame here, more or less on the level of a teenaged boy sneaking a peek at a site he knows he shouldn't be on.  There are three men and three women "on stage" in this short novel.  The women all talk the same way and the men all talk the same way.  The book follows Butch, a heel who disregards Lucy, the girl in love with him to pursue Candy, the niece of Billings, the harsh farmer that Butch comes to work for. As he and Candy fall more in love, and Billings abuses Candy physically and mentally, Candy suggests that they might murder Billings so that she can inherit the farm and marry Butch. The question of the book is whether Butch will do it.  By the time the crucial moment rolls around, we want Butch to do it and be ruined - instead, he doesn't do it and returns to "good" Lucy, who turns out to have been pining for him all this time. The last chapter of the book feels like a fanfiction writer wrote it. 

Maybe it would have been too much for Butch to fall fully prey to the charms of a femme fatale and kill a guy, but ultimately if that doesn't happen there's no reason to read this book, unless you like imagining breasts. Who doesn't, I guess?