Reliable Wife

English

ISBN: 1565129776

EAN: 9781565129771

Category: Fiction / Family Life/Fiction / Historical/

Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

Release Date: 01/05/2010

Synopsis: 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, shes 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 mans 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 Goolricks intoxicating debut novel delivers a classic tale of suspenseful seduction, set in a world that seems to have gone temporarily off its axis.

Reliable Wife

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.94 inches

Width: 5.5 inches

Length: 8.25 inches

Weight: 12.03 oz

Pages: 320