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John Grisham has a new hero...and she's packed with surprises. The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer's profession at an enormous Wall Street lawyer is on the fast track - before recession visits and she gets downsized, furloughed, escorted out of the building. Samantha, though, is one of the "lucky" associates. She's offered an chance to just work at a legal aid clinic for one calendar year without pay, after which there would be a thin chance that she'd get her old job back again. In just a matter of days Samantha steps from Manhattan to Brady, Virginia, populace 2,200, in the heart and soul of Appalachia, a part of the world she has only find out about. Mattie Wyatt, lifelong Brady resident and head of the town's legal aid clinic, is there to teach her how to "help real people with real problems". For the very first time in her profession, Samantha prepares a lawsuit, perceives the inside of an actual courtroom, gets scolded by the judge, and will get threats from local people who aren't so thrilled to truly have a big-city lawyer around. And she discovers that Brady, like most small cities, harbors some big secrets. Her new job calls for Samantha into the murky and dangerous world of coal mining, where laws and regulations are often busted, rules are ignored, regulations are flouted, areas are divided, and the land itself is under harm from Big Coal. Violence is always just around the corner, and within weeks Samantha sees herself engulfed in litigation that converts deadly.
