In a small town on the Oregon coast, a runaway teen steals a bicycle and a local renegade poaches a rare bull elk, setting off a series of events that lead to murder. There are a number of "natives" in this fast-paced novel. At its heart is TJ Garvin, a well-known local renegade whose family settled on the Oregon coast generations ago. He's building a wooden trawler from the ground up in the middle of eighty acres of upland old growth Douglas...