A Reliable Wife winter street a young woman is found

a young woman is found savagely murdered

including a pair of former circus performers whose daughter has gone missing

and a career on the rise--she's just been given her first murder case to defend

and he knows that someone else will be sent to finish the job

ten years ago after a historic flood and personal heartbreak

A Reliable Wife winter street a young woman is foundRural 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