The Honey of Souls

Since the spring thaw, no soul in the Borsk March has flown home to the forest, and the unflown dead are making the living sick. Dorota Wilk, a bortnik who climbs giant pines to tend wild hives, watches her father's body stay warm through a night when no gold bee comes. To learn why, she climbs the one tree he forbade her, and finds a vast, dying Bee-Mother with a demand: find the thief who is robbing the dead before Midsummer.