The Solitary Woman of Shakespeare

When seventeen-year-old Abigal Walker, the youngest of four sisters and desperate to escape her mother’s oppressive house and her tedious factory job in the East, responded to the ad, “Man in Territory seeks correspondence with adventurous gal,” she thought she had found her ticket to love and freedom. She falls in love with a man named Henry through the lovely letters he sends her about his home in the West and she agrees to travel there to Shakespeare to become his wife. But instead she finds herself lured to a rough mining town and twice-deceived. The first surprise she discovers upon arrival in Shakespeare is that she is the sole woman to have ever set foot there.