Robert Goolrick

"Let me tell you something, son. ?When you?re young, and you head out to wonderful, everything is fresh and bright as a brand-new penny, ?but before you get to wonderful you?re going to have to pass through all right. And when you get to all right, stop and take a good, long look, because that may be as far as you?re …

Rural Wisconsin, 1909. In the bitter cold, Ralph Truitt, a successful businessman, stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not the "simple, honest woman" that Ralph is …