It is 1992, and twenty-year-old Justin Bench has arrived, recently and unexpectedly, to the tiny, fictional mid-valley town of Appleton. Here, in the sparsely-populated mountains of central Washington State, Justins adoptive father has passed on, bequeathing him a small trust fund, and a caretakers cabin in the wooded environs of the old abandoned Appleton Quarry. Though encumbered with an unspecified learning disability, Justins indomitable good nature in concert with a solid gold work ethic has earned him the almost reverential trust and respect of the entire community in particular, a cadre of outdoorsy, verbally competitive,
