Living in the heart of coal mining country was hard enough, but having a wife that likes to sass is just too much for forty-year-old Jed Carpenter. He married the girl, more than twenty years his junior, out of pity, because her family just couldn’t afford to feed her and all her siblings and he owed her father a debt he couldn’t pay. At least she still had her purity. What he didn’t know is that Loretta had a smart mouth on her, and she wasn’t used to doing what she was told. Fed up with dirty dishes, a filthy house and an ever-increasing barrage of back talk, Jed takes matters into his own hands and teaches his defiant young bride a thing or two about what it means to be a wife! His punishment is swift and brutal, and Loretta finds out she can either submit or take her licks!