The Devil's Churn Author:Kristine Kathryn Rusch Some residents of Dory Cove feel that the Devil's Churn is much more than a tourist attraction on the Oregon coast. Fifty years ago its deadly currents took the life of young Spencer Chadwick. When he mysteriously returns, looking no older than the day he died, the shock coincides with a storm that blows murder and madness upon the town.