Life in America isn"t easy for Dimitri and Tatyana. Faced with the grim prospects of the Depression, Dimitri travels cross-country looking for a job to pay for his wife"s passage to the Northwest. Penniless and heartbroken, he becomes painfully aware that in the land of the free, everything has a price. - In this second book of the Sowers Trilogy, Tatyana and Dimitri brave dangerous underground mines, harsh Northwest winds, and the political bigotry of their neighbors to make a bright and shining way for their unborn child. But even as they prosper, Tatyana fears for her brother, imprisoned thousands of miles away in a Russian work camp.