When a train derails in Two Rivers, railroad worker and single father Harper Montgomery, who is still tormented by grief and his role in a past crime, finds a chance for atonement when he takes in one of the survivors, a pregnant fifteen-year-old girl named Maggie.

Bound by trauma, abuse and self-degradation, three best friends, as each of their worlds spiral wildly out of control, hope that their love, friendship and strength will help get them get to a better place in their lives.

"A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white Rust Belt town. But she's not the first--and she may not be the last. . . . It's watching. Liz Rocher is coming home . . . reluctantly. As a Black woman, Liz doesn't exactly have fond memories of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a predominantly white town. But her best friend is getting married, so she braces herself for a weekend of awkward and passive-aggressive reunions. Liz has grown, though;...