Ron Nichols

C.j. Brown's Diamonds in the Rough Ron Nichols

When 13-year-old C. J. Brown learns that she?ll be spending her entire summer away from her friends ? isolated ? in a small town in central Arkansas, she is utterly despondent. But as she begins meeting some of the rural village?s residents, C. J. discovers she possess a strange and remarkable gift. And when she befriends an eccentric, 8-year-old rock hound, she soon finds herself being led headlong into the dark and foreboding bowels of the earth. As a greedy corporate geologist seeks to remove the residents of the small town from their land ? in order to acquire the perfect water source for her client?s factory ? explosive charges are set off in one of the area?s nearby caves. With that blast, C. J. and her unlikely companion must count on each other to escape from their would-be death trap ? just as they appear to have discovered a remarkable cache of ?Diamonds in the Rough.?