Safely hidden away from her horrifying past in the safety of Missouri's Ozarks, single mother Nora loves her elderly friend, the inituitive owner of The Basket Shop. A young woman on-the-run arrives, and the three women's lives unite, changing Nora forever. Amid a cast of characters who love her including two grown sons, she's stunned by an unexpected pregnancy at 42. Nora constantly aches for the baby she gave away at 14 and she fearfully faces the past, a new full life and new love, and the terror of a shocking gift that has waited for her....