Damnation Spring - by Ash Davidson

Damnation Spring is a deeply human story of a Pacific Northwest logging town wrenched in two by a mystery that threatens to derail its way of life.

For generations, Rich Gundersen's family has chopped a livelihood out of the redwood forest along California's rugged coast.

Now Rich and his wife, Colleen, are raising their own young son near Damnation Grove, a swath of ancient redwoods on which Rich's employer, Sanderson Timber Co., plans to make a killing.

But when the opportunity arises to buy 24-7 Ridge--costing them all the savings they've squirreled away for their growing family--Rich grabs it, unbeknownst to Colleen.

As a midwife, Colleen has seen it with her own eyes: decades of herbicides used by the logging company have caused miscarriages among pregnant women in the town.

Will Rich and Colleen's marriage survive the truth? Will their town's way of life be destroyed by environmental degradation? Find out in this intimate, compassionate portrait of a community clinging to a vanishing way of life amid the perils of environmental degradation.