Caitlin Robb

Tender Young Greens Caitlin Robb

A passionate, turbulent artist. A prickly, rebellious bee charmer. A stupidly attractive sword-fighting guy. Fate has dragged these three along the glistening strands of its web and dropped them in the middle of a deadly game where gods are the players and the referees, where the boon of eternal life hangs in the fray. Not much stays hidden on Oleander Island, the tiny barrier island the secretive Sweetwater family calls home; but when the body of a local girl washes up onto the shore of the St. Clair Sound, it sets off a chain of events that washes away the sediment interring an unspeakable plot centuries in the making. Jack Hodgson, a newcomer to the Island, takes an interest in Melissa Sweetwater immediately--but something seems off. Melissa can charm bees and her sister, Fanchone's artwork seems to have a little too much life-of-its-own. When a black-eyed stranger breaks into the Sweetwaters' home, Jack's path veers into a crash-course with Melissa's, a treacherous spin-out of love and death on a road paved by ancients. TENDER YOUNG GREENS is a coming-of-age fantasy about the quest for immortality and the bittersweet in the golden moments that make life worth living.