Loretta McCready is a young teenager taken in by the Bennett family after her father, who was mixed up in Harlan County's drug trade, goes missing. She forms a particular bond with Mags Bennett, who sees Loretta as the daughter she wishes she had. Later, she also forms a bond with U.S. Deputy Marshal Raylan Givens, who recognizes some of himself in Loretta, a resourceful, fiercely independent child forced to grow up far too quickly.