Oregon provides the setting for all five stories in this collection. The stories range from the whimsical "The One That Got Away" to the moving "Patriotic Gestures." The collection also includes "The Amazing Quizmo," "Going Native," which was a finalist for the Best Fiction Maggie Award given by the Western Publications Association, and "The Moorhead House," which was chosen as one of the top ten stories of the year by the readers of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.