Set in a logging town on the lawless Pacific coast of Washington
State at the turn of the twentieth century, a spellbinding novel of
fate and redemption--told with a muscular lyricism and filled with
a cast of characters Shakespearean in scope--in which the lives of
an ill-fated family are at the mercy of violent social and
historical forces that tear them apart.
Keen to make his fortune, Jacob Ellstrom, armed with his medical
kit and new wife, Nell, lands in The Harbor--a mud-filled, raucous
coastal town teeming with rough trade pioneers, sawmill laborers,
sailors, and prostitutes. But Jacob is not a doctor, and a botched
delivery exposes his ruse, driving him onto the streets in a plunge
towards alcoholism. Alone, Nell scrambles to keep herself and their
young son, Duncan, safe in this dangerous world. When a tentative
reunion between the couple--in the company of Duncan and Jacob's
malicious brother, Matius--results in tragedy, Jacob must flee town
to elude being charged with murder.
Years later, the wild and reckless Duncan seems to be yet
another of The Harbor's hoodlums. His only salvation is his
overwhelming love for Teresa Boyerton, the daughter of the town's
largest mill owner. But disaster will befall the lovers with
heartbreaking consequences.
And across town, Bellhouse, a union boss and criminal
rabble-rouser, sits at the helm of The Harbor's seedy underbelly,
perpetuating a cycle of greed and violence. His thug Tartan directs
his pack of thieves, pimps, and murderers, and conceals an
incendiary secret involving Duncan's mother. As time passes, a
string of calamitous events sends these characters hurtling towards
each other in an epic collision that will shake the town to its
core.
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