A Hive of Second Spring
Overview
Nineteen years ago, she vanished into the thorns. He has kept her secret-and loved her-ever since.
Linnet Verdaine left to save a dying forest. She never meant to leave her little daughter behind.
Once Keeper of the Covenant Tree, Linnet returns to a home that has spent nineteen years explaining her disappearance. Every story is different. None has prepared her for what she finds: her daughter grown, with silver in her hair; her sister the Queen trapped in an enchanted sleep; and a realm still ready to blame her.
But in a quiet bee-garden, one man has never stopped waiting.
Rowan Ashby kept the promise that cost him everything. Stripped of his name and his forester's badge, he has lived behind a beekeeper's veil while his own children grew up eight miles away, believing him exiled.
Now he is fifty-three. His hives have been silent for a year. And the woman he has never once been allowed to kiss is standing among them.
After nineteen years of keeping faith, neither knows how to begin again.
Letters hidden in straw beehives hold truths their families deserve to hear. Lime trees blossom weeks before their time. And between the quiet of the Hivewood and the thousand steps of the Covenant Tree, Linnet must face the people who needed her-and the hurt her good intentions could not prevent.
She once walked into the thorns for love. Rowan let her go for the same reason.
This spring, they must find the courage to ask for a life together-and discover whether staying can be the bravest promise of all.
A Hive of Second Spring is a tender fantasy romance of long-kept promises, family reunions, and love returning after half a lifetime. Book Eight of The Keepers of Aelderwen, a saga of oaths, seasons, and gentle wonder, can be enjoyed as a standalone.
A clean, closed-door fantasy romance with a complete happily-ever-after.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798237910308
- ISBN-10: 9798237910308
- Publisher: Angelica Crowe
- Publish Date: October 2026
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.36 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.41 pounds
- Page Count: 154
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