Scott R. Baillie

Where the Sun Don't Shine Scott R. Baillie

A disaster at a local silver mine thrusts an isolated Montana mining town into the national spotlight, forcing a community to face its deepest fears. Everything Lucas Kaari accepts, believes in and loves changes in a tragic instant. At seventeen, Lucas has spent his life living in the shadow and pain cast by his older brother Russell, a gifted and fallen athlete who has chosen the mines and a debauched lifestyle over an education. Lucas? emerging love for his life long neighbor, Heather McKenzie, is tested as they await the fate of their loved ones trapped in the mine. Lucas? friendship with the poorest boy in town, Scabby Cipher, challenges his view of trust, bigotry, loyalty and compassion. Together, Lucas and Scabby uncover the deadly secret that brings a lost community to its knees. In doing so Lucas must confront the darkness he discovers in himself. ?Where The Sun Don?t Shine? is a story of family, prejudice, greed, horror, love and the assurance that in the face of crippling circumstances hope survives.