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The Beekeeper's Vow
She talks to her hives. He has not spoken to anyone in ten years.
She talks to her hives. He has not spoken to anyone in ten years.
Maren Ellery has kept her bees on Larke Orchard ground for nine years, beside an old woman who treated an orchard like a promise. When Agnes Larke dies, her will leaves Maren the orchard and its business outright. It also leaves her the orchard house's reclusive owner in residence, a one year covenant neither can break, and a bloom contract they must work together.
Rowan Larke is a black bear shifter who buried his wife ten winters ago and has kept his grief and her twelve colonies behind the same electric fence ever since. He feeds those bees. He does not open them. Leaving bees alone is its own slow way of losing them, and Maren is the first person who has ever told him so to his face.
Now a land company holds the orchard note, controls the spray schedule that can kill every colony she owns in one morning, and wants both parcels signed away before autumn.
Working the bloom together is the only way to keep the ground. Can either of them survive what it opens?