Lone Women

Blue skies, empty land, and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past, a mysterious trunk, a town on the edge of nowhere and an absorbing, powerful, BuzzFeed new vision of the American West, from the award-winning author of The Changeling. Propulsive ...LaValle combines chills with deep insights into our country's divides. Los Angeles Times. One of the most anticipated books of 2023 - The New York Times, Time, Oprah Daily, Los Angeles Times, Esquire, Essence, Salon, Vulture, Reader's Digest, The Root, Lit Hub, Paste, Pop Sugar, Chicago Review of Books, Book Page, Book Riot, Tordotcom, Crime Reads, Kirkus Reviews Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It's locked at all times. Because when the trunk opens, people around Adelaide start to disappear. The year is 1915, and Adelaide is in trouble. Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and make her way to Montana as a homesteader. Dragging the trunk with her at every stop, she will become one of the, lone women, taking advantage of the government's offer of free land for those who can tame it, except that Adelaide isn't alone.