1920s, Mississippi. Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her hard life on the swamp and her harsh father. But now, she finds herself with nowhere to go but back home. Matilda is from the other side of the Trace. She forms a plan to go north, to pack up the secrets she's holding about her life in the South and hang them on the line for all to see in Ohio. As the two girls are drawn deeper into a dangerous world of bootleggers and moral corruption, they must come to terms with the complexities of their tenuous bond and a hidden past that links them in ways that could cost them their lives.
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