An unwanted boy from a large city becomes a man on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. His future father -in-law is held by the boy dying in the surf from a gunshot wound. A minister paints violent paintings, a city editor investigates murder while the daughter of a wealthy fox hunter marries a weakling. The memory of a yellow bird killed by a troubled child flashes across the mind of a mate on a fishing boat as a giant Marlin is pulled aboard. The FBI investigates and natures wrath pounds the shores of The Graveyard of The Atlantic as two seemingly opposite personalities are drawn together both striving to answer the unanswerable. The solution is in the little black eyes of a Fiddler Crab.