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Lone Women

Victor LaValle

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English
Penguin (Transworld)
14 May 2026
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. This is an unforgettable horror western, from an award-winning author.

A Horror Western from award-winning author Victor LaValle which blends shimmering prose, an unforgettable cast of adventurers who find horror and sisterhood in a brutal landscape, and a portrait of early-twentieth-century America like you've never seen.

Blue skies, rolling plains - and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret.

Montana, 1915. 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.

Yet, 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.

But 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.
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Imprint:   Penguin (Transworld)
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 197mm,  Width: 127mm,  Spine: 21mm
Weight:   206g
ISBN:   9781804998663
ISBN 10:   1804998664
Pages:   304
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Victor LaValle is the author of eight works of fiction- five novels, two novellas, and a collection of short stories. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, an American Book Award, two Bram Stoker Awards, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Key to Southeast Queens. His novels have been included in best-of-the-year lists by the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Nation and Publishers Weekly, among others. The Devil in Silver is soon to be a major TV series. He lives in the Bronx with his wife and kids and teaches at Columbia University.

Reviews for Lone Women

A counter to the typical homesteading narrative, this moody and masterful western fires on all cylinders. Readers are sure to be impressed. * Publishers Weekly * Highly recommended for historical fiction readers just as much as die-hard horror fans. * Vulture * Expect richness, surprise and beauty from this visionary new rendering of the historic American West. * Salon * Victor LaValle is an outstanding storyteller known for his gripping narratives and the elegant flair he brings to speculative fiction. In Lone Women...he mixes these elements with historical fiction and commentary on racial tensions in 1915 Montana to deliver his best novel yet. * Gabino Iglesias, author of The Devil Takes You Home * A corrective to the founding myth of America, a book filled with bloodshed and pain, but always holding out for the hope of a happy ending. * Esquire * The combination of LaValle’s agile prose, the velocity of the narrative and the pleasure of upended expectations makes this book almost impossible to put down...deftly weaves history, horror, suspense and the perspectives of those rarely recorded in the West. * New York Times * Infused with creeping dread and chilling horror...it's an excellent novel that blurs genres and looks at early-20th-century America from a perspective that's been ignored for far too long. * NPR *


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