"Nothing links person to person like the frequent passage from hand to hand of a good book."

I rescued this book a few weeks ago from the Friends of the Library store in Rancho Penasquitos.

I'm giving this book to powaybabe at the bookcrossing meetup at Panera.

If you aren't familiar with Bookcrossing, take a few minutes to check out this very cool site. Bookcrossers LOVE books, and more than anything, they love to read books and then set them free for other people to find and enjoy. I would love it if you would leave a journal entry -- you can say where you found the book or how you liked it when you read it. Then, when you are ready, pass it along for someone else to enjoy! Thanks and happy reading!

This book arrived safely in the mail this week, a birthday present from powaybabe. I'm definitely reading this one next! Thanks so much!

FROM FLY LEAF: He placed a notice in a Chicago paper, an advertisement for "a reliable wife." She responded, saying that she was "a simple, honest woman." She was, of course, anything but honest, and the only simple thing about her was her single-minded determination to marry this man and then kill him, slowly and carefully, leaving her a wealthy widow, able to take care of the one she truly loved.
What Catherine Land did not realize was that the enigmatic and lonely Ralph Truitt had a plan of his own. And what neither anticipated was that they would fall so completely in love.
Filled with unforgettable characters, and shimmering with color and atmosphere, A Reliable Wife is an enthralling tale of love and madness, of longing and murder...Rural 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 devotion, and then, ever so slowly, she will poison him and leave Wisconsin a wealthy widow. What she has not counted on, though, is that Truitt - a passionate man with his own dark secrets - has plans of his own for his new wife.
Isolated on a remote estate and imprisoned by relentless snow, the story of Ralph and Catherine unfolds in unimaginable ways
An intriguing read of avarice & lust indeed

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I finished reading this today. I liked it a lot. Interesting characters. Lots of deceit...

I put this book in the mail to BC friend heartthumper. I hope you like it!

Thank you so much. The book arrived today. It looks like something I'll really like, can't wait to start it!

Couldn't put it down. Finished it after midnight and still had to get up and go to work in the morning. Loved it! Looking for someone else to keep up! Lol!

Happy Belated Birthday, love2cook. Hope you had a great day!

Thank you for the birthday book.

I found this to be a strange story. I can't really say I hated it. But it certainly wasn't the best story I ever read.

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