Sourwood

A man who has spent his life reading value off of everything has to learn, too late, to read what a person kept. August Calder left the Altamaha for New York and built a life out of clean deals and clean exits - a man who could read a room in three seconds and give nothing away. Then his father dies and leaves him the Reach: twenty-two thousand acres of pine and blackwater, and one clause in the will that will not let him sell it and walk away. To leave, he has to stay. And staying means Roan Ott, the beekeeper at the Gardi crossroads, whose slow country patience is everything Gus taught himself not to want. But the land his father kept so carefully has been keeping something of its own - and Gus, who has priced everything he ever touched, will have to learn to read what a man leaves behind instead of what he says.