<p><b>WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION<br></b><b>TWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN¿S PRIZE FOR FICTION</b><br><b>THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR</b><br><b><br>''A rich and compulsive read'' <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br><b>From the award-winning and internationally bestselling author of <i>Demon Copperhead, The Lacuna </i>and<i> The Poisonwood Bible.</i><br></b><br>It is summer in the Appalachian mountains and love, desire and attraction are in the air. Nature, too, it seems, is not immune. From her outpost in an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. She is caught off guard by a young hunter who invades her most private spaces and interrupts her self-assured, solitary life. On a farm several miles down the mountain, Lusa Maluf Landowski, a bookish city girl turned farmer''s wife, finds herself marooned in a strange place where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land