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Whispering Pines was built in 1931 and was a well-known vacation spot for people traveling from New York to Florida. Jeff Bell remembers telling the neighbors across the street to get out their garden hoses, just in case. He can't comment on the relationship because I saw Tonya at his shop. But he never communicated with her or nothing.

On November 12th, 2012, the Accomack County volunteer fire departments got a call. An abandoned house had suddenly gone up in flames. And then, just hours later, a second fire was reported. Then a third. Over the next few months, there would be a lot more fires—nearly 90 in all. It was all anyone could talk about in Accomack. Someone was burning down the entire county.

Monica Hesse's book is American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land.

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