"Reliance, Illinois has it all—mystery, politics, war; love, death, and art. Every page is a pleasure."—Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside OurselvesReliance, Illinois tells the s
In the small settlement of Motherlode, a group of disparate characters have set up a community, held together by the formidable Emaline, hostess of the Wayside Inn. It is there that Alex, on the run f
Disguising herself as a boy and hiding in the melee of the gold rush to escape her past, Alex endures alongside hardscrabble prospectors and raises suspicions in formidable proprietor Emaline, who ext
