Toxin in the Veins

As the Cascadian Supreme Court prepares to decide the fate of a pipeline crossing the sacred Longridge Trail, a whistleblower and a fugitive radical cross paths in the wilderness. Hunted by a relentless federal marshal and corporate killers, Liam and Ezra carry damning evidence of poisoned land and murdered activists. Their flight through the scarred backcountry becomes a journey into the heart of a nation’s rot, where the secrets they keep from each other prove as lethal as the toxins buried beneath the soil. In the vein of Ross Macdonald, this is a story of generational betrayal, where the poisons of a fading industrial age seep into the blood of the present, and redemption lies just out of reach on a road to self-destruction.