The river runs south
(Book)

When Camille Taylor's husband dies unexpectedly, the carefully constructed life she worked so hard to build in Washington, DC, shatters. After struggling for almost a year, she packs up her daughter, and heads for the Alabama coast where she grew up. The salt air and slow rhythms of the coast soothe Camille's spirit, but things have changed in her hometown. Runoff from an abandoned development site is polluting the water and local fisherman Mack Phillips has brought a suit against the site's owners--Camille's father among them. Camille joins her father's defense team, but the more she learns, the more she wonders if she's landed on the right side of the fight. Faced with blurred lines between right and wrong, Camille must decide for herself what the next chapter of her life will bring.