Shelby brushes Olivia’s hair carefully and lays out a white dress for her to wear, and she is pleased that her fellow parishioners notice when they enter the church, Living Waters, their church, is run by Pastor Jess Peacock, who took over when her husband passed away a few years ago. That weekend, Shelby brings her daughter Olivia to church. Other people in town have made millions on royalty checks while he has been picking up extra shifts at the prison and working at the Commercial Bar afterwards to help out his father, Dick, the owner. The next section begins two years later, and Rich is frustrated that drilling on his land has not yet begun. While they sign the leases in Pennsylvania, the Dark Elephant shareholders approve drilling in Pennsylvania, and Kip Oliphant, the CEO, is eager to get started. Rich, a correctional officer, and Shelby, his young wife, sign the lease for $25 per acre right away. He drops in on the Devlins, who are central characters throughout the novel. In 2010, when the first section of the novel begins, Bobby Frame is leasing agent for Dark Elephant, and he travels to Bakerton to convince residents to sell their mineral rights. The novel, which is told through the third-person omniscient perspective, opens with a short prologue that introduces Bakerton, Pennsylvania, as a former coal-mining town that was first founded in the Pennsylvania Oil Rush in the late nineteenth-century. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Haigh, Jennifer.
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