num_pages: 336
description: A novel about an idyllic small town poisoned by its past and one girl who must fight the strange disease that's slowly claiming everyone she loves.Wren owes everything she has to her home Hollows End a centuries-old picture perfect American town. Tourists travel miles to marvel at its miracle crops including the shimmering iridescent wheat of Wrens family farm. Until five months ago.Thats when the quicksilver mercury blight first surfaced poisoning the farms of Hollows End one by one. It began by consuming the crops--thick silver sludge bleeding from the earth. Next were the animals. Infected livestock and wild creatures alike staggered off into the woods by dayonly to return at night their eyes fogged white leering from the trees.Then the blight came for the neighbors.Wren is among the last locals standing. And the blight has finally come for her too. Now the only one she can turn to is the last person she wants to call: her ex Derek. They havent spoken in months but Wren and Derek still have one thing in commonHollows End means everything to them. Only theres much they dont know about their hometown and its renowned miracle crops. And theyre about to discover that miracles arent free.Their ancestors have an awful lot to pay for and Wren and Derek are the only ones left to settle old debts.
language: English
title: What We Harvest
publisher: Delacorte