Colyn and Dyanne have emigrated to a whole new world. They’ve built a family, raising three children. Life seems to be rolling along smoothly until one day, a neighbor phones to ask Colyn for help tracking a bear that was killing his pigs. When they find the bear dead, they discover other things too that defy explanation. Something far more disturbing. How could someone or something put up survey stakes that size without leaving tracks behind? How could something of that size come and go with very few clues left behind? Most of all, if such a being exists, how do you begin to communicate with it?

R. B. Hatch grew up on a working farm just outside Spirit River in the Peace River region of northern Alberta, Canada. His fiction springs from bold imagination and a fearless curiosity about the fragile tides of loss, recovery, and desire. Haying Season began with a single, vivid memory-the sudden dart of a mouse across a furrow while Hatch tended the fields-and blossomed into a tale full of wonder, grit, and heart. The memory crystallizes Hatch’s deep, enduring bond with the land and his gift for turning ordinary moments into resonant, transformative fiction.