Winter is ending.

Deep in the den, Rowan wakes to hunger, to movement, to the quiet presence of her cubs growing stronger beside her. The forest is changing. Food is scarce. And survival is no longer a certainty.

As spring turns to summer, Rowan leads her cubs through a landscape defined by instinct and necessity - rivers, burn scars, high meadows, and the constant search for enough. But beyond the forest lies something different: an orchard, ordered and unnatural, rich with food and edged with wire, scent, and danger.

The orchard offers what the wild cannot - abundance, speed, survival.

It also belongs to humans.

Told entirely through the sensory world of the bears - smell, movement, pressure, hunger - THE ORCHARD OF SLEEPING BEARS is a stark, immersive novel about survival, territory, and the quiet, escalating collision between the natural world and human systems.