The law asks what a reasonable, prudent man would do. It never warns you how few of them you'll meet.
He never wanted to be a lawyer. But the debt was mounting and nothing else had stuck, and law school was the last ripcord left to pull - so Christian pulled it, graduating at the top of a class he couldn't stand, straight into a profession that promised to finally make him someone.
What it makes him, first, is a young man adrift between two Kentuckys. In a fog-smothered Appalachian town, a ci...


