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Lone Women
- Author
- Victor LaValle
- Narrator
- Joniece Abbott-Pratt
- Publisher
- Transworld
- Publish Date
- 14 May 2026
- Run Time
- 9 hours 12 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It’s locked at all times. Because when the trunk opens, people around Adelaide start to disappear.
The year is 1915, and Adelaide is in trouble. Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and go West. Dragging the trunk with her at every stop, she will become one of the ‘lone women’, a female homesteader travelling by herself to stake her claim, taking advantage of the government’s offer of free land for those who can tame it. Except that she’s not really alone. And the secret she’s tried so desperately to lock away might be the only thing that will help her survive the untamed and unforgiving American frontier.
Crafted by a modern master of magical suspense, Lone Women 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. And at its heart is the gripping story of a woman desperate to bury her past—or redeem it.
© Victor LaValle 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026
Critics Review
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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
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A counter to the typical homesteading narrative, this moody and masterful western fires on all cylinders. Readers are sure to be impressed.
Publishers Weekly
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Highly recommended for historical fiction readers just as much as die-hard horror fans.
Vulture
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Holy hell this is an entertaining and unexpected story... I highly recommend this book to horror fans who enjoy horror sub-genre fusion, strong female protagonists, and short, buzzy chapters that keep you glued to the pages.
Sadie Hartmann, award-winning author of 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered
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Expect richness, surprise and beauty from this visionary new rendering of the historic American West.
Salon
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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
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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
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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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Horror readers should be well-acquainted with the works of Victor LaValle.
This is Horror
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Wow! The story, the unexpected setting, the reveal—just wow. Victor LaValle has a method of storytelling where he pulls you into an otherwise ordinary world, with only hints of the horror lurking beneath. But once that horror reveals itself, there’s no going back—and you’re eager for more. This tale of a young Black woman on the run, who ends up in Montana in the early 1900s, and the secret she drags along with her, is engrossing and chilling from start to end.
P. Djèlí Clark, author of Ring Shout
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Details
- Author
- Victor LaValle
- Narrator
- Joniece Abbott-Pratt
- Duration
- 9 hours 12 minutes
- Release Date
- 14 May 2026
- ISBN
- 9781529987836
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Transworld
- Genre
- Horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction, Adventure fiction: Westerns, Historical fiction, Mythical, legendary and supernatural beings, monsters and creatures, Narrative theme: diversity, equity, equality, inclusion
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It’s locked at all times. Because when the trunk opens, people around Adelaide start to disappear.The year is 1915, and Adelaide is in trouble. Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and go West. Dragging the trunk with her at every stop, she will become one of the ‘lone women’, a female homesteader travelling by herself to stake her claim, taking advantage of the government’s offer of free land for those who can tame it. Except that she’s not really alone. And the secret she’s tried so desperately to lock away might be the only thing that will help her survive the untamed and unforgiving American frontier.Crafted by a modern master of magical suspense, Lone Women 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. And at its heart is the gripping story of a woman desperate to bury her past—or redeem it.© Victor LaValle 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026
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