Recently divorced and looking for a clean break, Evan Halden leaves Connecticut for coastal North Carolina and buys forty-two acres on Kellum Loop, a rural road outside Jacksonville. He wants distance-from his old life, from neighbors, from the expectations that come with being known. But privacy is harder to own than land.As Evan builds a house and begins a relationship with Caroline Morton, a local woman whose past is tied closely to the people and history of the area, his younge...