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SUMMARY: 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. Historical - General,Wisconsin,Family secrets,Wisconsin - History - 19th century,Family Life,American First Novelists,Fiction,Marriage,Historical,American Historical Fiction,Gen

Author

Robert Goolrick, Robert Goolrick

Publisher

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781594133831

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.25 / 5 (58,739 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13