title: Lake Effect: Two Sisters and a Town's Toxic Legacy
author:  Nancy A. Nichols 
description: In 1992, Nichols' beloved elder sister was diagnosed with a rare form of ovarian cancer. On her deathbed, she makes Nichols, already a journalist, promise to write about her illness and what the two of them suspected might be the cause of it: massive pollution in their hometown of Waukegen, Ill., on the shore of Lake Michigan. In the midst of working on the book, Nichols received her own diagnosis-she also has a rare form of cancer which requires aggressive treatment. "My story was my sister's once over," she writes. Nichols constructs a fast-moving, urgent narrative that catalogues the evidence of the many different forms of pollution and the likelihood that they contributed to the cancers, documenting the choices and treatment she must face as a cancer patient. There is also, inevitably, a prosecutorial tone and a barely suppressed sense of outrage that such reckless pollution could be allowed to happen. Even if, as she explains, the facts that what she uncovers wouldn't stand up in court, the book still bears witness to both her own and her sister's trials. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  # DUKE
  
  
  Bad Boys of Willow Valley
  
  
  Book Three, Duke Falkner
  
  
  By The Lake Series
  
  
  Shannyn Leah
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Copyright © 2019 by Shannyn Leah
  
  
  All rights reserved
  
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or transmitted by any
  electronic or mechanical means including information, storage and retrieval
  systems, without the permission in writing from the author. The only exception
  is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review.
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either
  are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely
  coincidental.
  
  
  Shannyn Leah
  
  
  [www.ShannynLeah.com](http://www.ShannonLeah.com)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Table of Contents
  
  
  [Title Page](part0000.html#0-907cb737eaaf47bc9a3286bd33931125)
  
  
  [Copyright Page](part0001.html#UGI1-907cb737eaaf47bc9a3286bd33931125)
  
  
  [Duke (Bad Boys of Willow Valley,
  #3)](part0003.html