Emma is just 13 years old in 1933 when she gives birth to her fathers baby. Unable to care for the child, she abandons tiny Maddie and returns to her isolated home on a North Carolina mountain, where she must fend off her fathers drunken advances while trying to care for their small homestead. But when five year old Maddie is unexpectedly returned to Emma, a chain of events ensues that changes all of their destinies forever.



Over forty five years later, Olivia Bryant is an Atlanta attorney with a secret. As a child, she had to push an unthinkable tragedy deep into her mind in order to...