Damnation Spring

*'Probably the best novel I'll read this year. It's about work and love and characters who ring true. By the time I was 50 pages in I couldn't put it down. Can't stop thinking about it' Stephen King*

For generations, Rich Gundersen's family has made a living felling giant
redwoods on California's rugged coast. It's treacherous work, and though his
son, Chub, wants nothing more than to step into his father's boots, Rich longs
for a bigger future for him.

Colleen just wants a brother or sister for Chub, but she's losing hope. There
is so much that she and Rich don't talk about these days ­- including her
suspicions that there is something very wrong at the heart of the forest on
which their community is built.

When Rich is offered the opportunity to buy a plot of timber which borders
Damnation Grove, he leaps at the chance - without telling Colleen. Soon the
Gundersens find themselves on opposite sides of a battle that threatens to rip
their town apart. Can they find a way to emerge from this together?