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What We Harvest is a debut YA novel by Ann Fraistat, but it’s sure to have a larger audience than that, from the haunting cover alone! An idyllic farm community that is part tourist attraction due to its unusual produce begins to experience a terrible malady known as the blight, which affects not only the crops. Wren takes it upon herself to remedy the problem on her family’s farm with dire consequences, and later asks for help from her neighbor, and ex, Derek, when her parents disappear after curfew. Derek agrees to help, knowing their farms are all the futures they have. The tension in the novel is immediate, and as the story unfolds, it ramps up even more as situations warrant decisions that even the adults have struggled with. There is a natural flow to the story, and much mystery; everyone at Hollow’s End has secrets,ancient, malevolent secrets.