When Beck Wise vanished his girlfriend Melissa Makepeace poured herself into caring for the family farm, silently absorbing yet another man disappearing from her life. But when Beck reappears three months later, thin, pale, with no idea what day it is and filled with memories of being part of a bee colony, a series of layered mysteries begin to unravel. What had happened to Beck? Where did her father go? How can she keep the farm together?