Tenmile

Life in 1880 Tenmile, Colorado, isn't easy. But it's all that thirteen-year-old Sissy Carlson knows. She's lived there her whole life, watching her father, the local doctor, tend to the town's citizens.

While the mountain setting is gorgeous, Tenmile is a rough gold-mining town where the line between life and death feels thin. Mining is a hard job; men are often hurt or even killed. Sissy sees the same thin line between the haves and the have-nots as she assists her father in his practice, seeing firsthand the personal and not-always-private struggles of his patients. 

Sissy is starting to think about where she might fit into the world beyond Tenmile. What kind of future does Tenmile even offer, especially for a girl?