Rock Bottom

Last night, I read Rock Bottom by Erin Brockovich with CJ Lyons, and it was great.  I really enjoyed reading it, and would recommend it to anyone.

Ten years ago, AJ Palladino left her hometown, Scotia, in a Life Flight helicopter, after nearly drowning.  She was seventeen and never returned.  Eventually, she became an established environmental activist, but something goes horribly wrong.  A man commits suicide on her radio station, while he’s on air.  Eventually, AJ retreats back to Scotia, after being offered a job by Zachariah Hardy, a lawyer fighting against mountaintop removal mining.  The type of mining that has already polluted and ruined some of Scotia’s natural resources.  When AJ arrives in town, with her young son in tow, she discovers that Hardy is dead and rumored to have been murdered.  So AJ joins forces with the man’s daughter, Elizabeth, to try to finish her father’s work.  Soon after though, threats and bodies start appearing.  AJ must discover who’s really behind it, while at the same time she must face the betrayals of those who were once closest to her, and deal with the past that she left behind.