Set in the stark terrain of early twentieth-century Montana, 'Lone Women' tells the gripping tale of Adelaide Henry, a woman weighed down by more than just her bulky steamer trunk. Marked by a tragic past and burdened with a sinister secret, Adelaide embarks on a homesteading journey to claim free land offered by the government. However, her attempt to start anew is haunted not just by the memories of her 'secret sin' that decimated her family back in California, but by the very contents of her ever-present trunk. When the latches are undone and the trunk swings open, people start vanishing, and she's left with the stark choice of either locking away her demons or letting them loose for salvation. In his meticulously crafted novel, Victor LaValle weaves horror and historical fantasy into an extraordinary narrative of a lone woman's survival and self-redemption.