In Audrey Ingram’s The River Runs South, Camille Taylor has worked for and created a seemingly perfect life: a job she likes, a daughter she cherishes, and a husband she loves. Unexpectedly, her husband dies and Camille’s life is thrown into a tailspin. Hoping to grieve and then recover, she and her daughter retreat to the safety of her parents’ home in Mobile Bay, Alabama. Camille’s back home . . . finally.

As she slowly recovers from tragedy, Camille meets Mack Phillips, a fisherman and environmentalist. She learns Phillips is suing the company affiliated with her dad for run-off damage to the waters of the bay. Suddenly, Camille’s thrown into the middle of a fight between her father and Mack, between corporate greed and the public good, and between right and wrong. How she navigates those fights makes for a compelling story worthy of you time.

The arc of the novel takes the reader through loss, love, competition, greed, environmental concerns, and conflicts of interest, but ultimately proves that “right” usually triumphs.

Audrey Ingram is an Alabama native whose writing is true to the tradition of southern fiction. This is her first novel.