From the bestselling author of Prayers for Sale, Sandra Dallass Westering Women is an inspiring celebration of sisterhood on the perilous Overland Trail Exciting novel ... difficult to put down. --Booklist If you are an adventuresome young woman of high moral character and fine health, are you willing to travel to California in search of a good husband? Its February, 1852, and all around Chicago, Maggie sees postings soliciting eligible women to travel to the gold mines of Goosetown. A young seamstress with a small daughter, she has nothing to lose. She joins forty-three other women and two pious reverends on the dangerous 2,000-mile journey west. None are prepared for the hardships they face on the trek or for the strengths they didnt know they possessed. Maggie discovers shes not the only one looking to leave dark secrets behind. And when her past catches up with her, it becomes clear a band of sisters will do whatever it takes to protect one of their own.About author(s):Award-winning author Sandra Dallas was dubbed a quintessential American voice by Jane Smiley in Vogue. Shes the author of several novels--including The Brides House, Whiter Than Snow, The Persian Pickle Club, and Tallgrass--which have been translated into a dozen languages and optioned for film. She has won the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum Wrangler Award, the Western Writers of America Spur Award, and the Women Writing the West Willa Award multiple times. She lives in Colorado.