In rural Wisconsin in 1909, Ralph Truitt stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for a Reliable wife.
With echoes of Wuthering Heights and Rebecca , Robert Goolrick\'s intoxicating debut novel delivers a classic tale of suspenseful seduction, set in a world that seems to have gone temporarily off its axis..
Isolated on a remote estate and imprisoned by relentless snow, the story of Ralph and Catherine unfolds in unimaginable ways.
What she has not counted on, though, is that Truitt -- a passionate man with his own dark secrets --has plans of his own for his new wife.
Her plan is simple: she will win this man\'s devotion, and then, ever so slowly, she will poison him and leave Wisconsin a wealthy widow.
She is both complex and devious, haunted by a terrible past and motivated by greed.
But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she\'s not the simple, honest woman that Ralph is expecting.
In the bitter cold, Ralph Truitt, a successful businessman, stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for a Reliable wife.
Rural Wisconsin, 1909.
But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she\'s not the simple, honest woman that Ralph is expecting.
In rural Wisconsin in 1909, Ralph Truitt stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for a Reliable wife
