Samantha Kofer is a bright third year associate at a law firm on Wall Street. Her world turns upside down when the Lehman Brothers crash and recession hits the globe. She is furloughed and so, is lucky to land an unpaid job as a legal aid clinic, making her move from Manhattan to Appalachia. If the transition from a high-profile job to an obscure non-paying work was not enough, Samantha now has to deal with problems that afflict the real world of law and crime. She gets a firsthand experience of the lawlessness and murky field of coal mining when she undiscovered the dirty secrets of the small town. Samantha has to cope with the violent and threatening new world she has just set foot in.
