A baby. It's the one thing Romie Grodin, orphaned at thirteen, wants more than anything else in the world. A real homeplace. It's what her coal-mining husband Jasper wants-needs-to provide for his family. When the couple's best friend-their only "family"-is hurt in a mining accident and his wife becomes addicted to drugs, Romie and Jasper must make life-altering decisions that challenge their strengths and threaten their very existence...