Six years ago, a shocking secret sent Agnes Pratt running in search of a new start. She found it in Penance, a rugged town of miners and lumberjacks in the Dako

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Everyone in the small country town, Sammy Jo Knox had been born and raised,never left. They made their life there. Got married, had kids, lived in the samehouse