In Honeycomb Hollow, secrets keep longer than preserves and sting harder than bees. Beekeeper Eloise Thorne thought the most exciting thing in her summer would be winning the county tasting medal for her lavender honey. Then she uncaps a dusty1953 honey jar hidden in the wall of her late grandmother’s extracting shed and finds a message pressed beneath its wax seal: Ask the historian about the bell at Briar Chapel. Before Eloise can confront local historian Martin Vale, he dies at the village fête after sampling her prize honey. Now the town whispers that Eloise’s bees carried poison, her business teeters on ruin, and old neighbors turn careful eyes on one another. With only her hives, her nose for flowers, and a stubborn instinct for truth, Eloise must untangle a decades-old betrayal before the past buries her too.