Overview

From award-winning poet and author of Hold My Place and Idle Hands comes a new novel about nature, grief, and the space we hold for loved ones long after death, no matter what they might have done. Hayden Hill has always felt most comfortable with his hands in dirt, nurturing life. He designs natural spaces for others and comes home to his back yard, where he seeks refuge amidst the fruits and vegetables, flora, and shade-giving trees. When he finds himself suddenly a widower, his garden becomes the resting place for the ashes of his wife, Shelly, and he's thrown into an unexpected vortex of pain, shock, and guilt. As Hayden struggles to survive the torment of each day and keep his landscaping company functioning, a directive in Shelly's will leads him to the discovery of a shocking secret. Fighting to find a path through the weeds of grief, Hayden meets his wife's secret connections and becomes involved helping local, homeless teens cast out by their families for choosing to be who they are. Rocked by this newly discovered, complicated facet of Shelly's life, he begins to question their marriage, her identity, his past choices, and whether anything he believed about his wife was ever true.

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""One of the most excruciatingly emotional things I've ever read, and I loved every second of it."" ""Compulsive and gripping reading (that) makes you think and reflect on the human condition."" ""A powerful work of literary, poetical and lyrical fiction.""

Praise for the author: ""One of the most excruciatingly emotional things I've ever read, and I loved every second of it."" ""Compulsive and gripping reading (that) makes you think and reflect on the human condition."" ""A powerful work of literary, poetical and lyrical fiction.""

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Cassondra Windwalker earned a BA of Letters from the University of Oklahoma. Born and raised on the red clay, she's wandered the sticky corn fields of the Midwest, the frozen seas of the Wild North, and frequently rests her wings where orange skies meet purple mountains. She's the author of novels and poetry and does her best to keep fed a menagerie of stray critters, cryptids, marooned kelpies, and lost specters.

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