Hostile Environment

Stunning ace-attorney and competitive rower, Adel Blair, takes on what turns out to be one of the toughest challenges of her young legal career—a sexual harassment case bringing her face-to-face with Lou Scarlechek, a scoundrel of the worst order, leaving in his wake an assortment of sexually abused women. Addicted to power and sex, Scarlechek oversees the Legal Department of the Western Town theme park in Orlando, world-renowned for wholesome family values … everything Scarlechek is not. Delve behind its inviting facade to discover an intolerable “hostile environment” for women. Whether it’s the cover-up of an untimely death, blackmail, rape or attempted murder, Scarlechek goes to any extreme for the power and gratification that he craves. In his way is DeeDee Lane, a naïve secretary who decides not to take it. She and heroine, Adel Blair, are in for the fight of their lives. Hostile Environment is classic good versus evil, an intriguing plot of twists and turns keeping readers in suspense until the gripping climax in an obscure boathouse. A champion rower with over twenty-six years practicing law, including as an attorney at Disney and in private practice, author Patrick C. Crowell writes a thrilling, informative account of sexual harassment in the workplace, informing women of their rights in the arena of sexual harassment, while doing so in an exciting and spellbinding story. Read more