A Reliable Wife

by Robert Goolrich

Wisconsin. Fall. 1907.

Successful businessman Ralph Truitt is waiting for his bride-to-be to arrive on the train. He has never met her; he has only read the letters and seen the photo she sent to him. You see, she answered his advertisement for “a reliable wife.”

Catherine Land’s arrival in Wisconsin is not what we think it is. Her motivations for answering Truitt’s ad are more complex than the reader could ever imagine.

What follows is the story of a marriage. Readers will follow its ups and downs and secrets and lies. And readers will be amazed by the places the author will take us.

Full of sex and intrigue, this novel was not at all what I was expecting to read. Still, it kept me interested.

5/31/11