pIn 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.ppThere 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 Fir and has an illegal marijuana grow site hidden in the woods. There's his estranged wife, Johanna, who takes out a restraining order against TJ. Her dream is to get a real estate license and leave town for the big city with their three-year-old son, Jason. There's Luke Russell, a 17-year-old runaway who goes native in the coastal woods, raiding cabins to stay alive. There's Morris Barnes, the local sheriff and a relative Rogue County newcomer who dresses like a logger and plots to be elected Rogue County commissioner as a stepping-stone to the s