"In 1903 a mysterious, desperate young woman flees alone across the west, one quick step ahead of the law. She has just become a widow by her own hand. GIL ADAMSON'S extraordinary novel opens in heart-pounding mid-flight and propels the reader through a gripping road trip with a twist<U+2014>the steely outlaw in this story is a grief-struck nineteen-year-old woman. As the young widow encounters characters of all stripes<U+2014>unsavoury, wheedling, greedy, lascivious, self-reliant, and occasionally generous and trustworthy<U+2014>Adamson weds her brilliant literary style to the gripping, moving, picaresque tale of one woman<U+2019>s deliberate journey into the wild."--Publisher.