Drawn Back

As it turns out, whoever said “you can’t focus on the future when you’re living in the past” didn’t know the half of it. Ask history professor Patrick O’Connell, who is learning the hard way that fresh starts in life rarely come without complications.

Moving out of the small apartment the university found for him to become the caretaker of Julia Wirth’s beautiful old house in Portland’s West Hills, Patrick quickly finds that there are two not-so-small problems with the arrangement. First, th...