"The read is easy, intriguing, and filled with enough strangeness to expand the limits of the fictive dream."-Nick Gardner, Independent Book ReviewWhen Sol Jefferson, a strong, judicious Oregon county sheriff, witnesses a crimson-red creature appear out of thin air and gore a man on the beach, the encounter changes everything he thought he knew. Twice he shoots the creature down; both times, it recovers. It's clear the creature is not from this world....