After the sudden death of his wife, Zoi, in a car accident, Chris Stevenson finds himself traveling from North Memphis, Tennessee, with his two baby girls--one eleven and a half months old, and one fifteen days--old trying to outrun a snowstorm back to Georgia where he was from. The baby was a four-pound-four-ounce preemie. There were wrecks on the interstate everywhere. He needed to get to Gran Nelsons. He needed her love, strength, wisdom, and help.

After two days on the road, he was almost to Ellijay. His goal was to get to Blue Ridge. He had realized that wasn't happening tonight. His aunt Nora was holding a room for him at her Inn in Ellijay. He was a mile or so away, and as he rounded a curve, there was a car off the road in a snowbank with a woman passed out on the steering wheel. There had been no other cars on the road since Chatsworth.