The Salt Line
M. Ellison Hart
- Status
- Available
- Territories
- Worldwide
- Chain of title
- Independently held — verified
- Rights available
- Film & television · Audio · Translation
The Salt Line
M. Ellison Hart
A coastal surveyor finds a boundary that should not exist — and a town determined to keep it that way.
- Published
- 2024
- Length
- 342 pages
- ISBN
- 978-1-998201-01-4
- Source format
- Novel
- Scale
- Mid-scale
- Audience
- Adult
- Setting
- Coastal Maine, present day
- Territories
- Worldwide
- Chain of title
- Independently held — verified
Adaptation
A feature or limited series of closed rooms and open water: a surveyor, a township, and a line that has already been decided. Procedural without becoming cop-show; the camera lives in weather, ledgers, and the faces of people who have lived inside an error.
Synopsis
When Rowan Pell is hired to redraw the high-water mark of a Maine township, the line she plots does not match any map on file. It cuts through a churchyard, a cannery, and a family that has lived inside the error for a century. The Salt Line is a literary thriller about measurement, inheritance, and the quiet violence of a place that has already decided what the official record will say. Hart writes the coast as both evidence and accomplice.
Comparable films / series
Mare of Easttown; True Detective (S1); The Killing
Comparable books
The Secret History; The Silent Patient; Where the Crawdads Sing
Awards, sales & credentials
Independently published 2024. Strong early reader sales in US trade paperback. No prior screen option.
Rights on offer
- Film & television
- Audio
- Translation
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