After their father dies and debts mount, brothers Thad and Hazen live off the grid in a timber-house they inherited at the edge of the wilderness near the Yellowstone National Park. Pressed by medical bills and tax liens, the older, responsible Thad clings to survival by firewood and logging while the younger Hazen, deeply attuned to the wild, drifts more by instinct. When a shady outsider proposes a clandestine haul of elk antlers from the national park, the brothers find themselves drawn into an illegal scheme—and into a reckoning with their bond, their past, and the harshness of the land. An atmospheric novel about survival, family and the primal pull of place.