{"product_id":"9781804998663-lone-women","title":"Lone Women","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Horror Western from award-winning author Victor LaValle.\u003cbr\u003eBest Book of the Year:\u003ci\u003e Esquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Deftly weaves history, horror, suspense, and the perspectives of those rarely recorded in the West.' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This moody and masterful western fires on all cylinders.' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'His best novel yet.'  \u003cb\u003eGabino Iglesias, author of \u003ci\u003eHouse of Bone and Rain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret.\u003cbr\u003eA woman with a past, a mysterious trunk, a town on the edge of nowhere.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMontana, 1915.\u003c\/b\u003e When the US government offers Americans free land to those who can tame it, Adelaide Henry leaps at the chance. She’s fleeing from California and the family home that was left behind in flames. With no choice but to run, Adelaide becomes a ‘lone woman’, a female homesteader staking her claim on the unforgiving Montana soil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet, no matter how far she goes, Adelaide’s past is not so easily left behind. With her is an enormous steamer trunk that must stay closed at all times, and a secret inside that destroyed her family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut secrets cannot be stay locked up forever, and it isn’t long before her fellow homesteaders notice what Adelaide has desperately tried to hide – wherever she and her deadly cargo go, tragedy and terror follow. The American West is lonely and brutal, and that which Adelaide has tried so hard to escape may be the only thing that will help her survive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE \u003ci\u003eLOS ANGELES TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBOOK PRIZE\u003cbr\u003eFINALIST FOR THE LOCUS AWARD\u003cbr\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***Readers love \u003ci\u003eLone Women\u003c\/i\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A \u003cb\u003ehaunting\u003c\/b\u003e historical horror novel about isolation, survival, and monstrous secrets in the American West. \u003cb\u003eDark, powerful, and deeply unsettling\u003c\/b\u003e.' FIVE STARS \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This was an excellent experience and\u003cb\u003e I really love LaValle’s storytelling\u003c\/b\u003e.' FIVE STARS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I thoroughly enjoyed this wonderful mix of \u003cb\u003ehistorical fiction, western folklore, and… horror\u003c\/b\u003e.' FIVE STARS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eAmazing!!! \u003c\/b\u003eEmotional, moving, unexpected, sometimes brutal.' FIVE STARS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56409905660278,"sku":"9781804998663","price":8.51,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_38851133_3a7015ef-4765-4326-9b61-5e8699b751b3.jpg?v=1764391617","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781804998663-lone-women","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}