A New York Times Bestselling Author In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements has spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan, where men risk their lives for meager salaries and women labor in the houses of the elite and send their husbands and sons deep underground each day. Then Annie decides to stand up for the entire town of Calumet. In Annie''s hands lie the miners'' fortunes and their health, her husband''s wrath over her growing independence, and her own reputation as she faces the threat of prison and discovers a forbidden love. On her quest for justice, Annie will discover just how much she is willing to sacrifice for her independence and the families of Calumet.