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Algonquin Books
April 2009
On Sale: March 31, 2009
291 pages
ISBN: 1565125967
EAN: 9781565125964
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Rural Wisconsin, 1909. 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." But when Catherine
Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not
the "simple, honest woman" that Ralph is expecting. She is
both complex and devious, haunted by a terrible past and
motivated by greed. 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. 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. Isolated on a remote estate and imprisoned by
relentless snow, the story of Ralph and Catherine unfolds
in unimaginable ways. 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.
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