Kellum Loop

He knew what he was leaving. He didn't know what he was walking into.

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 ti...