Last Beekeeper

A beautiful novel about found family and hope from Julie Carrick Dalton.

No one had seen a honeybee in the wild for twenty years.

Decades after bees were declared extinct, Elbie Severn, a greenhouse hand pollinator, sees a honeybee. A real bee. But in the fragile economic and political climate, reporting unsubstantiated bee sightings is illegal because of the hysteria they cause. Elbie, who is allergic to bees, decides to find proof by tracking the bees and finds a wild hive. She soon discovers that others are also hunting down rogue bee colonies-but not everyone wants to save them.

Elbie must engage the help of her ailing father, once famously known as Time Magazine's Last Beekeeper on Earth, to help her find and protect the hive. But as Elbie goes deep into an underground society who are committed to finding and protecting bees, she discovers her own father, now suffering from dementia, played a role in the catastrophic event that resulted in The Great Collapse of the world's pollinators.

Also by Julie Carrick Dalton:
Waiting for the Night Song