Maggie Carter Smith, adrift and disoriented after a terrible loss, is thrown out of the present into a January day in 1860. In spirit and voice, she joins two women on a horse-drawn sleigh ride to a cemetery in eastern Ohio. During that visit and the ensuing journey home, the women replay the story of a family tarnished by crushing loss, burdensome guilt, and one devastating secret. A single story told from three perspectives, unleashing the power of forgiveness, which transforms them all.