Santa Cruz is one of the country’s favored getaway of the Silicon Valley elite. For decades, marijuana has been cultivated, consumed, and trafficked, one of the most important regions in the country for the crop. It’s where Ken Kesey threw his wild parties and where Tushar Atre, Silicon Valley entrepreneur, was found brutally murdered. Atre was the leader among a clutch of tech execs and venture capitalists with a voracious appetite for risk, work and money, riding waves at dawn and then putting in 14-hour days. When he met Rachael Lynch, he had a vision of how their lives could come together in business and in love. Atre sought to disrupt the newly legal cannabis trade by funding a start-up with black-market capital. This illegal pursuit would entangle him with an array of colorful and dangerous characters, many of whom had compelling reason to want him dead.