To save their marriage, Jasper and Joanne decide to move from the city where both have had an affair. In November, they buy a hillside farm, knowing nothing about farming except what they've Googled: Chicken coops, peach pies.
Winter is spent chiseling ice off water troughs, bringing barn cats inside, working puzzles by the fire. Jasper throws his second, secret phone full of lusty texts into the snow-slurried river. At night, Joanne lets herself curve into Jasper's warm body.
"Are you happy?" she whispers.
"I'm revealed."
A lamb dies. They leave it for the crows. By June, it's all bleached bones.