Seeds of a Dead World

A stranger who pays cash for a dying tobacco farm in rural Kentucky brings impossible abundance to the land—and impossible questions to the boy next door. Fifteen-year-old Joseph Garland, fatherless and searching, becomes apprentice to the enigmatic Nils Dettmer, a man who catalogs human emotions like specimens and grows crops that defy every law of agriculture. But Nils harbors a secret that could reshape everything Joseph understands about life, loss, and what it means to be the last of your kind.