The Widow Nash

For years, Dulcy Remfrey accompanied her father, Walton, on worldwide trips as he invested in mines and sought treatments for his syphilis. But in 1904, when Walton returns from an African expedition, his mind gone, Victor Maslingen, his business partner and Dulcy's ex-fiancé, summons her to Seattle. He's convinced that Dulcy can decipher Walton's cryptic notebooks to learn what happened to profits from a gold mine, but pages with dates and victim statistics from earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, odd scientific theories, and bawdy poetry yield no answers. After her father's death, Dulcy disappears during a train journey taking his body back East. Leaving behind clues suggesting she committed suicide in order to escape Victor's marriage plans, Dulcy reinvents herself as a wealthy widow in a remote Montana town But she discovers that the residents of Livingston have their own dark secrets and that her past may catch up with her. Is the train passenger who arrives in town Victor's spy or Dulcy's chance for happiness? Multiple characters swirl through the novel, rushing from crisis to crisis.