Kelly Wacker is a Western native currently residing in the Deep South where, as a professor of art, she teaches art history and environmental studies. Deeply connected to the natural world, she spends as much time as she can observing, thinking, and daydreaming while walking with her canine companion in the fields and along the creeks near her home. She is also prone to staring at the night sky, looking for the moon, and searching for Ursa Major. She has yet to see a bear in the wild but hopes that will change soon.
When Jordan Burroughs arrives in the Deep South to paint a local endangered aquatic flower, she doesn’t expect to become friends with a mischievous gin-drinking ghost who complicates her budding romance and leads her to an awful discovery and danger.
When art historian Melissa Warren meets Sula Johansen, director of a local bear conservancy, she discovers that love can come in unexpected and unusual forms.