Appalachian Alchemy

"Marshall Merrick, called Book, is just another poor kid living on the unforgiving shores of the Kentucky River, born to a legacy of violence and raisedtosacrifice his ambitions on the altar of his Appalachian pride. Buthislust for knowledge and a dangerous love fuelhis hopefor something more, a life far from the river andits poison. It's this hope, slimas a shadowand unrelenting as the summer sun, that leads him into watersmore treacherous than he has ever braved, andachoice that threatens to drown everything he loves."