After years of making money for other men, fisherman Nate Mercer is cheated out of his share and blacklisted from the harbor by powerful boat owner Graham Pike. With his father’s medical bills piling up and no one willing to give him a berth, Nate risks everything he has on an abandoned wharf, a battered wooden boat called Second Wind, and a dangerous fishing ground behind Devil’s Teeth that everyone else has written off. His first haul proves he was right—but success only makes Graham more determined to destroy him. Ice suppliers shut their doors. Buyers are scared away. Rumors spread that Nate’s catch is unsafe. His boat is sabotaged, regulators are sent after him, and even his fishing grounds become a target. But every time Graham closes one door, Nate builds another way through. What begins as one fisherman fighting for a fair share grows into a battle over who gets to work, who controls the harbor, and whether survival has to mean becoming the same kind of man who tried to crush him.
