The Four Deaths of Clayton Standard

"Chief" Clifford Haymarket is at the end of his run as timber foreman in the vast Appalachian woodlands when he meets Clayton Standard: larger than life, torn at the seams, and tragic as an endless nightfall. When the two men begin a tense and increasingly forbidden relationship, Chief learns more about the desperate legend of Clayton Standard than he'd like to know... and more about himself than he ever thought possible.

Set in the deep forest hollows of West Virginia and following a rough and secluded crew of lumberjacks and mountain homesteaders, The Four Deaths of Clayton Standard is pure Appalachia, a story of complicated ecologies, strained relations of power, and a love that might never be allowed to set itself free.