In this novel, Morgan returns to the vivid world of the Appalachian high country to follow Julie and Hank in their new life on Gap Creek and their efforts to make sence of the world in the last years of the nineteenth century. Scratching out a life for themselves, always at rick of losing it all, Julie and Hank don't know what to fear most-the floods or the flesh-and-blood grifters who insinuate themselves into their new lives.
