What Do You Get When You Mashup Horror and a Western? You get Lone Women.

 I loved the ending of Lone Women and want to move there immediately!

There is a saying that men settled the West and then had their wives and children flown out later. In reality, thousands of women settled the West on their own, sometimes with children in tow. The protagonist of Lone Women is fleeing to Montana but unlike most fugitives, she's bringing her curse with her...in a big, heavy trunk.

This isn't only horror. It's a fantastic Western with outlaws, horse thieves, and vigilantes, that happens to have some magic and horror, too. Most of the characters are women, both the heroines and the villains. The setting itself looms large. As the characters repeatedly warn each other, "Montana wants to kill us."

Whatever you do, don't open that trunk!

Thanks to One World Publishers (a division of Penguin Random House) and to Netgalley for allowing me to read and review Lone Women.